From owner-freebsd-security Mon May 20 3: 9: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 308D137B408; Mon, 20 May 2002 03:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (adsl-67-37-234-147.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [67.37.234.147]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with SMTP id g4KA8uKl000787; Mon, 20 May 2002 05:08:56 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200205201008.g4KA8uKl000787@midway.uchicago.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: Maxim Sobolev , developers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is 4.3 security branch officially "out of commission"? Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 05:08:56 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, nectar@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3CE8C3E2.EBF4EC8F@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3CE8C3E2.EBF4EC8F@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday 20 May 2002 04:37 am, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Folks, > > I was notified by the members of the local FreeBSD community (we have > a very strong presence of FreeBSD in ISP circles here) that seemingly > 4.3 security branch isn't supported anymore, even though there was no > official announcement about decommissioning. See http://www.freebsd.org/security/index.html. I quote --- At this time, security advisories are being released for: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE Older releases are not maintained and users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to one of the supported releases mentioned above. --- As Kris Kennaway mentioned on May 8 (security@ archives...), the official lifetimes of the security branches are not long, although the security team may choose to extend support longer as a courtesy, presumably if they have the manpower and interest. -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Center for Cosmological Physics The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message