From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 16 14:17:41 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 453034D8 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:17:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) Received: from webmail.dweimer.net (24-240-198-187.static.stls.mo.charter.com [24.240.198.187]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F3C8FC12 for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:17:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.dweimer.net (webmail.dweimer.net [192.168.5.1]) by webmail.dweimer.net (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id qAGEHduI006020 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:17:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 08:17:39 -0600 From: dweimer To: Subject: Re: WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. Organization: dweimer.net Mail-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: <20121115225711.3cd8b952c68e1bcc67d08977@d2ux.net> References: <20121115225711.3cd8b952c68e1bcc67d08977@d2ux.net> Message-ID: <85fcd1a44b05333bf97fa90f249239d9@dweimer.net> X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 14:17:41 -0000 On 2012-11-15 15:57, 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? Is the whole 9.0 Series approaching EOL, > or > does this only apply to the initial 9.0-RELEASE _AND NOT_ to e.g. > 9.0-RELEASE-p3 ? > > Where can I find more information on the planned lifecycles of the > current > and upcoming releases? Are there any? > > Thanks & kind regards > > Matthias Its all on the website, Current Release Information: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/ Release engineering Information: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ Next release information: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.1R/schedule.html Its running a touch behind (11-12-2012 was target release announcement), but I am glad they prefer to do it right rather than on time. FreeBSD 9.0-RElEASE-p4 is actually current, but I believe the p4 doesn't show up unless you do a build world. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/