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Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Charles Bacon <crtb@cape.com>
Subject: Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?
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P.U.Kruppa wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote:
> 
>> I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be
>> a 6.3.  Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw:
>>
>>    WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
>>    It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer
>>    release within the next 4 months.
>>
>> 1. Now I wonder if I'll have to rebuild my filesystems again when 7.0
>>   comes out.  ...releases/amd64 contains only 6.1 and 6.2 among the
>>   ISO images.
> Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html .
> There will be at least a 6.3-RELEASE (work hasn't started yet) and 7.0 
> will be sort of a non-production beta release. So you will have enough 
> time before you have to do a a major upgrade.

I disagree that 7.0 will be a non-production beta release.  We're 
working very hard to make sure it as good quality as it can be (but that 
also depends directly on users helping out).

Kris