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Subject: Re: Response to Meltdown and Spectre
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> On Jan 31, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Zahrir, Abderrahmane =
<Abderrahmane.Zahrir@ca.com> wrote:
>=20
> I understand that you have not been notified early enough about the =
Meltdown and spectre security flow.
> However do we have a rough estimate (something like an approximate =
month) of when a patch will be available for the latest version 11.1 and =
possibly 11.0?

There=E2=80=99s was fairly detailed update by the FreeBSD foundation =
yesterday:

=
https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/FreeBSD-Found=
ation-January-2018-Update.pdf =
<https://www.freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/FreeBSD-Foun=
dation-January-2018-Update.pdf>