Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 23:50:04 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@ze.tum.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No Extended Support Version right now? Message-ID: <8F86D7B0-6E3A-40EE-A8B3-E5209AB579A5@mail.sermon-archive.info> In-Reply-To: <f76c72f0-449b-91e8-b46f-55e9d931d8fc@ze.tum.de> References: <f76c72f0-449b-91e8-b46f-55e9d931d8fc@ze.tum.de>
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> On 8 August 2018, at 22:30, Gerhard Schmidt <estartu@ze.tum.de> wrote: >=20 > Hi, >=20 > is there realy no version of FreeBSD with support longer than 3 Month > right now. >=20 > I'm running FreeBSD on quite a lot servers. I don't want to go through > updating every x Month. So in the past I stick with the Extended = Support > Releases. But support for 10.3 ended 2 Month ago. 10.4 support will = end > in 3 Month. >=20 > No Extended Support release for FreeBSD 11 has been announced yet. > FreeBSD 11.1 support will end in 2 Month. >=20 > Will 11.2 be an extended support Release or maybe 11.1 >=20 > This i not a good situation to sell FreeBSD as a professional > alternative to Linux or Windows to my bosses. >=20 from https://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup The FreeBSD support model Effective FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE, the support model has been changed to = allow more rapid development while also providing timely security = updates for all supported releases. Under the new support model, each major version's stable branch is = explicitly supported for 5 years, while each individual point release is = only supported for three months after the next point release. The details and rationale behind this change can be found in the = official announcement sent in February 2015.
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