From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 11 12:29:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15C1B16A412; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:29:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Received: from postman.atlantis.dp.ua (postman.atlantis.dp.ua [193.108.47.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE69F43DD4; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:28:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Received: from atlantis.dp.ua (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postman.atlantis.dp.ua (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9BCPthb025916; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:26:31 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Received: from localhost (dmitry@localhost) by atlantis.dp.ua (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) with ESMTP id k9BCPtjJ025911; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:25:55 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:25:55 +0300 (EEST) From: Dmitry Pryanishnikov To: Jeremie Le Hen In-Reply-To: <20061011102106.GY1594@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> Message-ID: <20061011151458.L97038@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> References: <451F6E8E.8020301@freebsd.org> <20061011102106.GY1594@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd security , security-officer@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon 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: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:29:54 -0000 Hello! On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > Though I admit RELENG_4 is getting dusty, it is not rusty. I believe it > is still used in many places because of its stability and performance. > > For instance, according to Julian Elischer's posts, it seems he is still > working on it. > > Is it envisageable to extend the RELENG_4's and RELENG_4_11's EoL once > more ? Yes, I'm also voting for it. This support may be limited to remote-exploitable vulnerabilities only, but I'm sure there are many old slow routers for which RELENG_4 -> 6 transition still hurts the performance. RELENG_4 is the last stable pre-SMPng branch, and (see my spring letters, Subject: RELENG_4 -> 5 -> 6: significant performance regression) _very_ significant UP performance loss (which has occured in RELENG_4 -> 5 transition) still isn't reclaimed. So I think it would be wise to extend { RELENG_4 / RELENG_4_11 / both } [may be limited] support. Sincerely, Dmitry -- Atlantis ISP, System Administrator e-mail: dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua nic-hdl: LYNX-RIPE