From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Apr 2 19:51:36 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0CD2D2AFF3 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2017 19:51:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from outbound.ifdnrg.com (outbound2.ifdnrg.com [193.200.98.38]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68DD63A5 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2017 19:51:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) Received: from [192.168.0.77] (5ec0f881.skybroadband.com [94.192.248.129]) (authenticated bits=0) by outbound.ifdnrg.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id v32JYboQ012012 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2017 20:34:39 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from paul@ifdnrg.com) X-Authentication-Warning: outbound.ifdnrg.com: Host 5ec0f881.skybroadband.com [94.192.248.129] claimed to be [192.168.0.77] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Paul Macdonald Subject: FreeBSD long term support (Post 11.0) Message-ID: <59472acf-aa73-f5f1-9be6-abd771b3289b@ifdnrg.com> Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 20:34:41 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2017 19:51:36 -0000 Am i correct in thinking that for long term support its now more advisable to install STABLE as opposed to RELEASE builds? i.e From: https://www.freebsd.org/security/ "Under the new support model, each major version's stable branch is explicitly supported for 5 years, while each individual point release is only supported for three months after the next point release." We've traditionally always installed REL builds, but for example all our 11.0-REL installs look to be EOL'd within 2 months /*WARNING: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p8 is approaching its End-of-Life date.*// //It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer release within the next 2 months.// / Additionally is there still no way to switch from STABLE->REL, or REL->STABLE via freebsd-update? thanks Paul. -- ------------------------- Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting ------------------------- t: 0131 5548070 m: 07970339546 e: paul@ifdnrg.com w: http://www.ifdnrg.com ------------------------- IFDNRG 40 Maritime Street Edinburgh EH6 6SA ---------------------------------------------------- High Specification Dedicated Servers from £100.00pm ----------------------------------------------------