From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 15 22:36:29 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 8E18A9A7 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:36:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oa0-f54.google.com (mail-oa0-f54.google.com [209.85.219.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492328FC17 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:36:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-oa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id n9so2793809oag.13 for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:36:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=Q0jS0t1m7SR4w97Jg4z7ik4KgXwJNRV2oCqDTlU96p0=; b=S/tfNG65Tm3TlNOJILEDYr+s16bHdSM0r7NMYNdoWZZfzmie3dler85nJLT+4nuSzd lF0fETodlRWmTUac3ubTQjDnkJiijP67G1FSOgxgjwrpJNW8IXtZjkEPBXIbzkveEeJf p9YtwLwWZTl7DfMuosiTCQr4BKXXmzRBNyxoq1tIqxh/gJytEpWEMBgR7RpaArdb4hPA bgMebmWdnhRcysqknPHa3lU+WBrxFGLzLxykU2RwiY9X+MapBy48oaTrggpABB3wIXgR qsVJaDzdJOvVT8DBLU4lSA2freKJYTnZV6yQGeiVjHX0m22VUja/5FTe1jUxalLGX7CY wZCw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.26.170 with SMTP id m10mr2301816oeg.65.1353018988728; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:36:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.80.104 with HTTP; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:36:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20121115225711.3cd8b952c68e1bcc67d08977@d2ux.net> References: <20121115225711.3cd8b952c68e1bcc67d08977@d2ux.net> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:36:28 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. From: Adam Vande More To: Matthias Petermann Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 22:36:29 -0000 On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Matthias Petermann 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