Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 06:19:00 +0100 From: =?utf-8?q?ozgur=40kazancci=2Ecom?= <ozgur@kazancci.com> To: "Tomasz CEDRO" <tomek@cedro.info> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions Mailing List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "FreeBSD Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: =?utf-8?q?Re=3A?==?utf-8?q?_=5BFreeBSD-Announce=5D?= FreeBSD =?utf-8?q?12=2E0?= end-of-life Message-ID: <7264-5e4b7400-b-26698180@122867346> In-Reply-To: <CAFYkXjmZi1-MB6W0HsMx9gHek7Xg5heoSKKWkNTnw74dxRTwAw@mail.gmail.com>
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"Why so short End-Of-Life? Why so many fast and short releases? What fo= r?" That's the question of the century. I got the very same question as abo= ve. I hate bitchin' about Open-Source free stuff, but that's really too= much. Very short EoL - so many releases, it's head-aching (a.k.a. shak= ing). --- =C3=96zg=C3=BCr Kazancci, https://ozgur.kazancci.com On 18 February, 2020 06:23 +03, Tomasz CEDRO <tomek@cedro.info> wrote: = > Why so short End-Of-Life? Why so many fast and short releases? What f= or? > > Why pushing problems to production? What was wrong with having one > well tested stable system for a long time? > > 12.0 was a problematic release. 12.1 brings even more problems. > > To be honest X11 Video Acceleration DRM mess and dramatic > Virtualization with VirtualBox brings back my MacBook to the desk > because FreeBSD does not seem to be reliable desktop environment > anymore even on a decent modern machine :-( > > Is it really necessary? What happened to FreeBSD? :-( > > Tomek > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:14 AM FreeBSD Security Officer wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA512 > > > > Dear FreeBSD community, > > > > As of February 29, 2020, FreeBSD 12.0 will reach end-of-life and wi= ll no longer > > be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 12.0 a= re strongly > > encouraged to upgrade to a newer release as soon as possible. > > > > The currently supported branches and releases and their expected en= d-of-life > > dates are: > > > > +-----------------------------------------------------------------= ---------+ > > | Branch | Release | Release Date | Estimated = EoL | > > +-------------+--------------+-------------------+----------------= ---------+ > > | stable/12 | N/A | N/A | June 30, 2024 = | > > +-------------+--------------+-------------------+----------------= ---------+ > > | releng/12.1 | 12.1-RELEASE | November 4, 2019 | 12.2-RELEASE + = 3 months | > > +-------------+--------------+-------------------+----------------= ---------+ > > | stable/11 | N/A | N/A | September 30, 2= 021 | > > +-------------+--------------+-------------------+----------------= ---------+ > > | releng/11.3 | 11.3-RELEASE | July 9, 2019 | 11.4-RELEASE + = 3 months | > > +-----------------------------------------------------------------= ---------+ > > > > Please refer to https://security.freebsd.org/ for an up-to-date lis= t of > > supported releases and the latest security advisories. > > > > - -- > > The FreeBSD Security Team > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEE/A6HiuWv54gCjWNV05eS9J6n5cIFAl5LHZNfFIAAAAAALgAo > > aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEZD > > MEU4NzhBRTVBRkU3ODgwMjhENjM1NUQzOTc5MkY0OUVBN0U1QzIACgkQ05eS9J6n > > 5cIqyA//ROIFtIsEDV5p02FnWClgWu3qxZ4uRyA0usM1DtZPBYjtfsFGdAU+9NvY > > EsUB3rVjWx2HNoHKySFgjLbtGdCNoae45pjLe3UiKgrbQZwXCdUl0d1y+4ZcoR0D > > cdtEY6YWio4kBHTWxd0cgCpe+Cmk3nQRB005qgvMkkCBNBGuZQcQS62CMMis3IWC > > paMcRBmzkh9HMW8e9XN2mFjGJbT2HKzY+y/Qvj3NhxenYgTzQbVwRDz4JPKz7Al+ > > aVq2gLEuEgRWNFG+fBnk7qikzmV7JaXI+j/ImZnrMFBDC/ymiQMbQdt0Kxv0TsZF > > ajR18pQyoAONXoJs875HD54/Rj0rQNkKwyZNKuka5+NWR/6d9H52+iytkGqn2DLR > > Jp9slPHBW5ofC7WlgAAeV+S1Et7fWeV96hqDVRUXZstir6hM3hYEdwnQP8aFaYO9 > > No+uLd6IAKBtBCK9hxOv6O6lmWjNk4LWQb6keG+zwFDCfnILdfwVE+eML7GqLzQ1 > > 5s40M7gZsB//1S27WQOhKS4Vea+68meGOzGv0KkMd4gNuV/cBqVoCj52Muu3O0gK > > nbMuFHptQbL0qhFGzho4chg4TsuXs0lf28BsHYYFeEewEce7gIwCgPLQPIwLQG4h > > cv7KkgwEetngUUlyMaeKu2xCUXTaDJ3KpFkwEcol1oezaWkduwg=3D > > =3DviBR > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= > > freebsd-announce@freebsd.org mailing list > > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-announce-unsubscribe@free= bsd.org" > > > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info > =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= =5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F=5F= > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freeb= sd.org"
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