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Carol Overes <caroloveres@yahoo.com> writes:

> I have tried to found out until when the 4.7 release
> is officially supported by FreeBSD.
> 
> According to Release Engineering Information
> (http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html) 4.7 is
> still officially supported. However ISO images are not
> available on the FTP site.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how long 4.7 is supported ?

It is still supported with security fixes.  That doesn't mean that
most of the mirrors keep the distribution files around.  If you look
through enough of the mirrors, though, some of them still have it.

It's strongly recommended to use 4.9 instead.