Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:38:17 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: security-officer@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 EoL =~ s/January/May/ Message-ID: <47180A89.9070400@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <47180390.8000606@freebsd.org> References: <47180390.8000606@freebsd.org>
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FreeBSD Security Officer wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> In light of the longer-than-expected window between 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-RELEASE,
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This should read "between 6.2-RELEASE and 6.3-RELEASE", of course...
> the End-of-Life date for FreeBSD 6.2 has been adjusted from January 31st, 2008
> to May 31st, 2008. As a result, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will
> all cease to be supported at the end of May 2008.
>
> FreeBSD users should plan on upgrading to either FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 once
> those have been released (hopefully by the end of December). FreeBSD 6.3 will
> be supported until the end of 2009, while FreeBSD 7.0 will be supported until
> the end of 2008.
>
> Colin Percival
> FreeBSD Security Officer
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