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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:36:28 -0600
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
Message-ID:  <CA%2BtpaK2NCWUXmmiOeKtZGw-9qvBH2hB%2BMo4UWcisrU_E-c=evQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20121115225711.3cd8b952c68e1bcc67d08977@d2ux.net>
References:  <20121115225711.3cd8b952c68e1bcc67d08977@d2ux.net>

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Matthias Petermann <matthias@d2ux.net>wrote:

> 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?


Means exactly what it says.  9.0 will soon be unsupported.  Things like p1,
p2 etc are patchsets to a release, they are not a release onto themselves.

http://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup

-- 
Adam Vande More



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