From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 19:16:37 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 1B6D516A4CE; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:16:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.vicor-nb.com (bigwoop.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE81B43D1F; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:16:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from elischer.org (julian.vicor-nb.com [208.206.78.97]) by mail.vicor-nb.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372927A44B; Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:16:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <41E2D492.9020302@elischer.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:16:34 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030516 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" References: <1105317580.22779.12.camel@wednesday.pricegrabber.com> <20050110132233.GA5374@lum.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <20050110132233.GA5374@lum.celabo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:18:16 +0000 cc: Christopher McCrory cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: update for 4.11 Security Officer-supported branches 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, 10 Jan 2005 19:16:37 -0000 Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: >On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:39:40PM -0800, Christopher McCrory wrote: > > >>Hello... >> >> In regards to http://www.freebsd.org/security/ , from what I understand >>the FreeBSD 4.x branch is generally winding down in favor of the 5.x/6.x >>branches. It would be nice to know ahead of time if 4.11 will also be >>an extended release, or if that would fall to 4.12. For those of >>running 4.8 (expiring about the same time as 4.11 is released) we would >>be in a better position to know where to upgrade; 4.10 or 4.11. >> >> > >Hi Christopher, > >Upgrade to FreeBSD 4.11. It will be supported through January 31, 2007. >In all likelihood, there will not be a FreeBSD 4.12. > there will however be a RELENG_4 branch still active for those of us who need to continue generating 4.x based releases for ourselves.. I'm assuming security patches goin gto 4.11 will also go there. While a 4.12 will PROBABLY not happen, I do plan on continued MFCs of important changes to RELENG_4 as I do not envision my custommers moving to 5.x until some time in 2006 at the earliest. (Including fixes from dragonfly, and possibly some new drivers and thing like USB fixes. > >Cheers, > >