From nobody Mon Dec 1 04:15:42 2025 X-Original-To: freebsd-current@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4dKVvH63SCz6Hx6R for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:15:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Received: from mail.oetec.com (mail.oetec.com [108.160.241.186]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature ECDSA (prime256v1) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.oetec.com", Issuer "E8" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4dKVvG0kWDz3sy1 for ; Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:15:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=blastwave.org header.s=default header.b=n5+6AuA+; dmarc=pass (policy=quarantine) header.from=blastwave.org; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of dclarke@blastwave.org designates 108.160.241.186 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=dclarke@blastwave.org Received: from [172.16.35.4] (pool-99-253-118-250.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [99.253.118.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.oetec.com (8.17.1/8.17.1) with ESMTPSA id 5B14Fhhw070694 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:15:50 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dclarke@blastwave.org) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=blastwave.org; s=default; t=1764562550; bh=tieLBWkGQwQh6XSWsdX+7h6j3QITurQccb6hw+lAM84=; h=Date:To:From:Subject; b=n5+6AuA+twKaAl88bpVGsKmkZIkQCAV6JFMkMT30eI44RjdZVT2pNC3DPyuvq3MAz DhnXnsKxp79mAP/F6FY0DUCEFqqjWqulKXNI0mvXf0JyK+ckaXKlcdMyQSdghoJhe4 h2zby6YNqvqIGzkvraxs2RDb/vgcFq/Ydoxd2edNS/QqMAEJibzSbe1YKFcRIUNjXT /s1y0i01G8Ri92NWHb3J2zbCd835wbq86ST3r/t/t8YIxh8iRFwTVH8665FT8nA0AP PTcZk8fcvq7/0Vyx4FESsyBams7VDflKxPpkkUTzNiFdS+QPkqMt1v22oGlbyAc38g KBfx2/Ppk5toA== Message-ID: Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:15:42 -0500 List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Language: en-CA From: Dennis Clarke Subject: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE timeline Organization: GENUNIX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-oetec-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-oetec-MailScanner-ID: 5B14Fhhw070694 X-oetec-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-oetec-MailScanner-From: dclarke@blastwave.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.70 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-1.00)[-0.996]; DMARC_POLICY_ALLOW(-0.50)[blastwave.org,quarantine]; RCVD_DKIM_ARC_DNSWL_MED(-0.50)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[blastwave.org:s=default]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED(-0.20)[108.160.241.186:from]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; ASN(0.00)[asn:812, ipnet:108.160.240.0/20, country:CA]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-current@freebsd.org]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-current@freebsd.org]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[blastwave.org:+] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4dKVvG0kWDz3sy1 Just looking at : https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/schedule/ Which says 15.0 EoL 30 September 2026 ? Maybe I do not understand what that means. To be actually released with some announcement in a few days and then dead in nine or ten months? There is no such EoL entry on this page for 14.0-RELEASE : https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/schedule/ Just seems to be a very short life span for 15.0-RELEASE. -- -- Dennis Clarke RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC UNIX and Linux spoken