For your info.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">FreeBSD Security Officer</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cperciva@freebsd.org">cperciva@freebsd.org</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM<br>Subject: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.2 EoL coming soon<br>To: freebsd security <<a href="mailto:freebsd-security@freebsd.org">freebsd-security@freebsd.org</a>>, FreeBSD Stable <<a href="mailto:freebsd-stable@freebsd.org">freebsd-stable@freebsd.org</a>><br>
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Hello Everyone,<br>
<br>
On June 30th, FreeBSD 7.2 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be<br>
supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly<br>
encouraged to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.3 before that date; FreeBSD 7.3 will be<br>
supported until the end of March 2012. Please note that since FreeBSD 7.1<br>
has been designated for 'Extended' support, it will continue to be supported<br>
until the end of January 2011, i.e., FreeBSD 7.1 will be supported longer<br>
than FreeBSD 7.2.<br>
<br>
The End of Life date for FreeBSD 7.2 was originally announced as May 31, but<br>
was delayed by one month in accordance with Security Team policy in order to<br>
allow a 3 month window between the release of FreeBSD 7.3 and the End of Life<br>
of FreeBSD 7.2 to allow time for systems to be upgraded.<br>
<br>
The freebsd-update(8) utility can be used to upgrade i386 and amd64 systems<br>
from 7.2-RELEASE (or 7.2-RELEASE-pX for some X) to 7.3-RELEASE using binary<br>
updates (i.e., without compiling from source) as described in the 7.3-RELEASE<br>
announcement; given an adequate internet connection, this process usually takes<br>
15 minutes or less.<br>
<br>
The current supported branches and expected EoL dates are:<br>
<br>
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| Branch | Release | Type | Release date | Estimated EoL |<br>
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|<br>
|RELENG_6 |n/a |n/a |n/a |November 30, 2010|<br>
|---------------------------------------------------------------------|<br>
|RELENG_6_4 |6.4-RELEASE |Extended|November 18, 2008|November 30, 2010|<br>
|---------------------------------------------------------------------|<br>
|RELENG_7 |n/a |n/a |n/a |last release + 2y|<br>
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|<br>
|RELENG_7_1 |7.1-RELEASE |Extended|January 4, 2009 |January 31, 2011 |<br>
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|<br>
|RELENG_7_2 |7.2-RELEASE |Normal |May 4, 2009 |June 30, 2010 |<br>
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|<br>
|RELENG_7_3 |7.3-RELEASE |Extended|March 23, 2010 |March 31, 2012 |<br>
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|<br>
|RELENG_8 |n/a |n/a |n/a |last release + 2y|<br>
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|<br>
|RELENG_8_0 |8.0-RELEASE |Normal |November 25, 2009|November 30, 2010|<br>
|-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|<br>
|RELENG_8_1 |8.1-RELEASE |Extended|not yet |release + 2 years|<br>
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<br>
For clarity, this is NOT an April Fool's joke.<br>
<br>
- --<br>
Colin Percival<br>
Security Officer, FreeBSD | <a href="http://freebsd.org" target="_blank">freebsd.org</a> | The power to serve<br>
Founder / author, Tarsnap | <a href="http://tarsnap.com" target="_blank">tarsnap.com</a> | Online backups for the truly paranoid<br>
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