From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Aug 9 07:48:30 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD798105A4AE for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 07:48:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.netfence.it (net-2-44-121-52.cust.vodafonedsl.it [2.44.121.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mailserver.netfence.it", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4191584CB0 for ; Thu, 9 Aug 2018 07:48:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.netfence.it (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id w797mJnA032421 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 9 Aug 2018 09:48:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) X-Authentication-Warning: soth.netfence.it: Host alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18] claimed to be alamar.ventu Subject: Re: No Extended Support Version right now? To: estartu@ze.tum.de References: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 09:48:19 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2018 07:48:31 -0000 On 8/9/18 7:30 AM, Gerhard Schmidt wrote: > Hi, First off, I'm not speaking for FreeBSD officially; this is just my interpretation of the content of https://www.freebsd.org/security/. > is there realy no version of FreeBSD with support longer than 3 Month > right now. How do you came to that conclusion? 11.2 will be supported until three month later than the date 11.3 is released. So far 11.3 release has not been announced, so that's vague. However 12.0 is expected to come out in November; let's assume 11.3 comes out immediately after, that would mean 11.2 would be supported until February, so that's 6 month. This schedule is however very unlikely, so I guess it's safe to assume a much longer period. > No Extended Support release for FreeBSD 11 has been announced yet. > FreeBSD 11.1 support will end in 2 Month. > > Will 11.2 be an extended support Release or maybe 11.1 Unfortunately it seems "extended support" is gone, so no further release (11.x or whatever) will be such. > This i not a good situation to sell FreeBSD as a professional > alternative to Linux or Windows to my bosses. While I agree with you, there's been much discussion about this and I don't think repeating it over and over would be useful. bye av.