From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 15 22:27:32 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D639142D for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:27:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthias@d2ux.net) Received: from h1907788.stratoserver.net (h1907788.stratoserver.net [85.214.252.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81A798FC18 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:27:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by h1907788.stratoserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AA4839EDC96 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:56:47 +0100 (CET) Received: from h1907788.stratoserver.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (h1907788.stratoserver.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id cbo1oOAQMouz for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:56:46 +0100 (CET) Received: from compaq (p579D30DD.dip.t-dialin.net [87.157.48.221]) by h1907788.stratoserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50A6239EDC93 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:56:46 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:57:11 +0100 From: Matthias Petermann To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. Message-Id: <20121115225711.3cd8b952c68e1bcc67d08977@d2ux.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:27:33 -0000 Hello, from a freshly installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE I did a freebsd-update to bring it to the latest patch level. After: # freebsd-update fetch I got this message: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer release within the next 2 months. What does this exactly mean? Is the whole 9.0 Series approaching EOL, or does this only apply to the initial 9.0-RELEASE _AND NOT_ to e.g. 9.0-RELEASE-p3 ? Where can I find more information on the planned lifecycles of the current and upcoming releases? Are there any? Thanks & kind regards Matthias -- Matthias Petermann