Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 11:16:34 -0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: update for 4.11 Security Officer-supported branches Message-ID: <41E2D492.9020302@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20050110132233.GA5374@lum.celabo.org> References: <1105317580.22779.12.camel@wednesday.pricegrabber.com> <20050110132233.GA5374@lum.celabo.org>
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Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: >On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 04:39:40PM -0800, Christopher McCrory wrote: > > >>Hello... >> >> In regards to http://www.freebsd.org/security/ , from what I understand >>the FreeBSD 4.x branch is generally winding down in favor of the 5.x/6.x >>branches. It would be nice to know ahead of time if 4.11 will also be >>an extended release, or if that would fall to 4.12. For those of >>running 4.8 (expiring about the same time as 4.11 is released) we would >>be in a better position to know where to upgrade; 4.10 or 4.11. >> >> > >Hi Christopher, > >Upgrade to FreeBSD 4.11. It will be supported through January 31, 2007. >In all likelihood, there will not be a FreeBSD 4.12. > there will however be a RELENG_4 branch still active for those of us who need to continue generating 4.x based releases for ourselves.. I'm assuming security patches goin gto 4.11 will also go there. While a 4.12 will PROBABLY not happen, I do plan on continued MFCs of important changes to RELENG_4 as I do not envision my custommers moving to 5.x until some time in 2006 at the earliest. (Including fixes from dragonfly, and possibly some new drivers and thing like USB fixes. > >Cheers, > >
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