Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:42:56 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release? Message-ID: <426310A0.7060906@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200504180330.37184.danny@ricin.com> References: <20050412213328.GC1953@lava.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417185631.05349ee0@localhost> <200504180330.37184.danny@ricin.com>
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Danny Pansters wrote: > inevitably there will be some 5.X maintanance > release that will go on for a long time. Does anyone really doubt that? I > don't, also consider that 4.X will have to be phased out ASAP (or be prepared > to support 3 system compilers, I don't think so, no one would like that for a > long time). There's not much need for concern IMHO altogether. FreeBSD 4.11 will be supported until at least January 2007. The last FreeBSD 5.x release (whichever it happens to be -- that's for the release engineering team to decide) will be supported for two years from its release date. Colin Percival
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