From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 08:30:04 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 3884816A4CE for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 08:30:04 +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 4D90243D48 for ; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 08:30:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk) Received: from pd2mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr6so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.9]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ICX000YE8XX4QA0@l-daemon> for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 01:29:57 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.151]) by pd2mr6so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0ICX00KPF8XXMFI0@pd2mr6so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Sun, 06 Mar 2005 01:29:57 -0700 (MST) 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, 06 Mar 2005 01:29:57 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:29:56 -0800 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <1110097390.3927.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> To: "Devon H. O'Dell" Message-id: <422ABF84.2010808@wadham.ox.ac.uk> 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: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime References: <42296320.4080303@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <1110097390.3927.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050302) cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heads up: End of RELENG_4_8 support 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: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 08:30:04 -0000 Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 23:43 -0800, Colin Percival wrote: >> It is recommended that all FreeBSD 4.8 users upgrade their systems to >>FreeBSD 4.11 before the end of the month. FreeBSD 4.11 has also been >>designated for extended support, and will be supported until at least >>the end of January 2007. > > Is it possible to use freebsd-update to update my 4.8-SECURITY system to > your 4.11 build? No. However, you can download the 4.11-RELEASE iso image, mount it on /cdrom, and use that to install 4.11. Colin Percival