From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 1 07:30:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2B016A415 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 07:30:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE5B43D49 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 07:30:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr2so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.178]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J6G005O14UOHK60@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:30:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.151]) by pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J6G00LV44UO0220@pd3mr2so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:30:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0J6G0030Z4UNLYA0@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 01:30:24 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 35673 invoked from network); Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:30:22 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:30:22 +0000 Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:30:22 -0700 From: FreeBSD Security Officer To: freebsd security Message-id: <451F6E8E.8020301@freebsd.org> Organization: FreeBSD Project MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: security-officer@freebsd.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 07:30:26 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On October 31st, FreeBSD 5.3 and FreeBSD 5.4 will have reached their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of either of those FreeBSD releases are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 5.5 or FreeBSD 6.1 before that date. In addition, the FreeBSD 6.0 End of Life is presently scheduled for November 30th. Depending upon the progress of the FreeBSD 6.2 release cycle, this may be delayed until December 31st in order to allow time for users of FreeBSD 6.0 to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.2. Users of FreeBSD 4.11 systems are also reminded that that FreeBSD 4.11 will reach its End of Life at the end of January 2007 and that they should be making plans to upgrade or replace such systems. The current supported branches and expected EoL dates are: +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Branch | Release | Type | Release date | Estimated EoL | |-----------+------------+--------+----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_4 |n/a |n/a |n/a |January 31, 2007 | |-----------+------------+--------+----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_4_11|4.11-RELEASE|Extended|January 25, 2005|January 31, 2007 | |-----------+------------+--------+----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_5 |n/a |n/a |n/a |May 31, 2008 | |-----------+------------+--------+----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_5_3 |5.3-RELEASE |Extended|November 6, 2004|October 31, 2006 | |-----------+------------+--------+----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_5_4 |5.4-RELEASE |Normal |May 9, 2005 |October 31, 2006 | |-----------+------------+--------+----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_5_5 |5.5-RELEASE |Extended|May 25, 2006 |May 31, 2008 | |-----------+------------+--------+----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_6 |n/a |n/a |n/a |last release + 2y| |-----------+------------+--------+----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_6_0 |6.0-RELEASE |Normal |November 4, 2005|November 30, 2006| |-----------+------------+--------+----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_6_1 |6.1-RELEASE |Extended|May 9, 2006 |May 31, 2008 | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Once it is released, FreeBSD 6.2 will be supported until November 30, 2007. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFH26OFdaIBMps37IRAhJCAJ974ed3hre2jaStlu+u+/N667JHBgCfaQuV DeeQJXfaKXQmo/pRzbClLv8= =29t4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----