From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 18 01:43:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B1416A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:43:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1702E43D53 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:43:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.177]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IF400AUUCS1P630@l-daemon> for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:43:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.145]) by pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IF40068OCS17870@pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:43:13 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:43:13 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:42:56 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <200504180330.37184.danny@ricin.com> To: Danny Pansters Message-id: <426310A0.7060906@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 References: <20050412213328.GC1953@lava.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417185631.05349ee0@localhost> <200504180330.37184.danny@ricin.com> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050406) cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release? X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 01:43:14 -0000 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