Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:34:03 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE timeline Message-ID: <78AED058-F118-4096-B823-F45EFAE5F5C3@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1C737426-3C74-4240-8A37-47552F6550E2@yahoo.com> References: <07C4BD2A-8AD7-4364-A6DF-D3AB1D3E296D@yahoo.com> <804482BA-B05F-4BEE-BB9E-E220FBB38346@yahoo.com> <1C737426-3C74-4240-8A37-47552F6550E2@yahoo.com>
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On Nov 30, 2025, at 22:28, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Nov 30, 2025, at 22:20, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> On Nov 30, 2025, at 22:05, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote: >> >>> Dennis Clarke <dclarke_at_blastwave.org> wrote on >>> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2025 04:15:42 UTC : >>>> >>>> Just looking at : >>>> >>>> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/schedule/ >>>> >>>> Which says 15.0 EoL 30 September 2026 ? Maybe I do not understand what >>>> that means. To be actually released with some announcement in a few days >>>> and then dead in nine or ten months? >>>> >>>> There is no such EoL entry on this page for 14.0-RELEASE : >>>> >>>> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/schedule/ >>>> >>>> Just seems to be a very short life span for 15.0-RELEASE. >>> >>> See the announcement from back in February: >>> >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html > > I found what I should have referenced: > > https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2024-July/000143.html > >> https://www.freebsd.org/security/ >> >> has apparently not been updated: its link is to something >> from 2015. >> >> >> So I'll reference: https://www.freebsd.org/releng/ >> >> It reports: >> >> Date Event >> December 2025 FreeBSD 15.0 >> March 2026 FreeBSD 14.4 >> June 2026 FreeBSD 15.1 >> September 2026 FreeBSD 14.5 >> December 2026 FreeBSD 15.2 >> March 2027 FreeBSD 14.6 >> June 2027 FreeBSD 15.3 >> December 2027 FreeBSD 16.0 An illustration of the schedule out to 17.0 is at: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/navigating-freebsds-new-quarterly-and-biennial-release-schedule.94183/ If accurate in how it shows overlaps, there would be a period with all the following active: 14.6 15.3 15.4 16.0 16.1 main (2028-Jun) and a later period with: 14.6 15.4 15.5 16.0 16.1 main (2028-Sep) Hopefully there will be more aarch64 port-package builder machines active by then. With quarterly and latest for all but main and with armv7 suspended, that would be 11 combinations to cover during those periods. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com
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