From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 22:10:48 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BA9916A4CE for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:10:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av7-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (av7-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21ED143D2F for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 22:10:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ertr1013@student.uu.se) Received: by av7-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 7636C37F48; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:10:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.178]) by av7-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BE337E72 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:10:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from falcon.midgard.homeip.net (h201n1fls24o1048.bredband.comhem.se [212.181.162.201]) by smtp2-2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2551D37E47 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:10:45 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 73658 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Jan 2005 22:10:45 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 23:10:45 +0100 From: Erik Trulsson To: sp0ng3b0b Message-ID: <20050107221045.GA73635@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: sp0ng3b0b , questions@freebsd.org References: <41DF03E3.6040605@sbcglobal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41DF03E3.6040605@sbcglobal.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How long will 4.x be supported? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 22:10:48 -0000 On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:49:23PM -0800, sp0ng3b0b wrote: > Given the serious stability issues that *some* users are having with > 5.3, many are sticking with 4.x for production servers. > > Will FreeBSD keep the 4.x line alive for a little while longer? Perhaps > going into 4.12, 4.13, etc? > > I ask this only because I don't see a lot of communication to the list > about these issues being addressed. As far as I know there are currently no plans for any more 4.x releases beyond the upcoming 4.11. Security fixes will however be applied to 4.x until Jan 2007 (according to http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html) Considering that relatively few changes have been made to 4-STABLE between the release of 4.10 and 4.11 and considering that this rate of change will probably slow down even further as time goes on and most developers move over to 5.x there probably will be too few changes applied to 4.x to warrant a 4.12 release anytime soon. -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se