From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 27 18:59:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35E3F106566B for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:59:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 963C48FC1D for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:59:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:fa1e:dfff:feda:c0bb]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q2RIxOcN030247 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:59:25 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.5.0 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk q2RIxOcN030247 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/q2RIxOcN030247; dkim=none (no signature); dkim-adsp=none Message-ID: <4F720E0C.1030108@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 19:59:24 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120313 Thunderbird/11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org References: <201203271825.MAA08436@lariat.net> In-Reply-To: <201203271825.MAA08436@lariat.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig8EDFDC91CD77F09573241627" X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97.3 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: Subject: Re: Support for releases 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: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:59:29 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig8EDFDC91CD77F09573241627 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 27/03/2012 19:25, Brett Glass wrote: > I've just noted that as of this month, there is no release of FreeBSD -= - > on any branch -- whose EOL is less than a year away. Should there not > be at least one release with extended support? ITYM 'more than a year away' there... 8.3 is due, in fact, over due now, but should be out fairly soon. That should be the extended support version you're looking for. I believe that RE have stated that the lifetime of various branches due to drop out of support soon will be extended due to the delay in getting 8.3-RELEASE out of the door, but that was only to cover any potential gap= =2E Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --------------enig8EDFDC91CD77F09573241627 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9yDgwACgkQ8Mjk52CukIxktwCePOMmNCkBjpiEu/T0OOx6bPrN jAgAmgOAvnktemHFCJWZsNKc9IIh4O// =HhsM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig8EDFDC91CD77F09573241627--