From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 01:38:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F391016A41A for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:38:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC8E513C461 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:38:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.8]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JQ40010MXW97T30@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:38:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.148]) by pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JQ4000ONXW9BC20@pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:38:33 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.201.197]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0JQ400LHMXW8KFR5@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:38:32 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 2333 invoked from network); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:38:18 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hexahedron.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:38:18 +0000 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:38:17 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <47180390.8000606@freebsd.org> To: security-officer@freebsd.org Message-id: <47180A89.9070400@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 References: <47180390.8000606@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070812) Cc: freebsd security , FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 EoL =~ s/January/May/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:38:45 -0000 FreeBSD Security Officer wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > In light of the longer-than-expected window between 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-RELEASE, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 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