From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 5 15:05:42 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 150201065675 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 15:05:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from xps.daemonology.net (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6533D14FEF7 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 15:05:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12266 invoked from network); 5 Jun 2010 15:05:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xps.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Jun 2010 15:05:40 -0000 Message-ID: <4C0A67C4.6000701@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 08:05:40 -0700 From: FreeBSD Security Officer Organization: FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd security , FreeBSD Stable X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.2 EoL 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: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 15:05:42 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On June 30th, FreeBSD 7.2 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.3 before that date; FreeBSD 7.3 will be supported until the end of March 2012. Please note that since FreeBSD 7.1 has been designated for 'Extended' support, it will continue to be supported until the end of January 2011, i.e., FreeBSD 7.1 will be supported longer than FreeBSD 7.2. The End of Life date for FreeBSD 7.2 was originally announced as May 31, but was delayed by one month in accordance with Security Team policy in order to allow a 3 month window between the release of FreeBSD 7.3 and the End of Life of FreeBSD 7.2 to allow time for systems to be upgraded. The freebsd-update(8) utility can be used to upgrade i386 and amd64 systems from 7.2-RELEASE (or 7.2-RELEASE-pX for some X) to 7.3-RELEASE using binary updates (i.e., without compiling from source) as described in the 7.3-RELEASE announcement; given an adequate internet connection, this process usually takes 15 minutes or less. The current supported branches and expected EoL dates are: +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Branch | Release | Type | Release date | Estimated EoL | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_6 |n/a |n/a |n/a |November 30, 2010| |---------------------------------------------------------------------| |RELENG_6_4 |6.4-RELEASE |Extended|November 18, 2008|November 30, 2010| |---------------------------------------------------------------------| |RELENG_7 |n/a |n/a |n/a |last release + 2y| |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_7_1 |7.1-RELEASE |Extended|January 4, 2009 |January 31, 2011 | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_7_2 |7.2-RELEASE |Normal |May 4, 2009 |June 30, 2010 | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_7_3 |7.3-RELEASE |Extended|March 23, 2010 |March 31, 2012 | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_8 |n/a |n/a |n/a |last release + 2y| |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_8_0 |8.0-RELEASE |Normal |November 25, 2009|November 30, 2010| |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_8_1 |8.1-RELEASE |Extended|not yet |release + 2 years| +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ - -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkwKZ8QACgkQFdaIBMps37LL9wCfRspIGXYatsdPDbBR8OZEDocs BagAnAmTXen6TQ+2ER3oF6702stmxVIJ =ydCN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----