From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 23 19:43:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0496616A41C for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:43:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90A243D58 for ; Mon, 23 May 2005 19:43:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr8so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.11]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IGY00HPHK3HJSE0@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 13:42:53 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml9so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.7]) by pd2mr8so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IGY00GV3K3HXQ10@pd2mr8so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 13:42:53 -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)) with ESMTP id <0IGY00B1GK3HMJ@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 23 May 2005 13:42:53 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 12:42:52 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <3248.172.16.0.199.1116876092.squirrel@172.16.0.1> To: Mike Jakubik Message-id: <4292323C.4080707@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: <3248.172.16.0.199.1116876092.squirrel@172.16.0.1> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050406) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Lifetime of FreeBSD branches X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 19:43:13 -0000 Mike Jakubik wrote: > Could someone point me to a resource that outlines the expected supported > lifetime of all the branches? Can't find anything concrete on the webpage. http://www.freebsd.org/security/ In addition to the material there (which is concerned with existing releases), FreeBSD 5.x is expected to be supported until late 2007 (FreeBSD 5.5 plus two years), and FreeBSD 6.x will probably be supported until early 2009 (the last FreeBSD 6.x release plus two years). Colin Percival