[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 8.4 EoL extension

[Xin LI]

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Dear FreeBSD community,

After the recent reminder about the upcoming EoL for FreeBSD 8.4, several
issues have come to our attention related to earlier security advisories,
most notably users have reported a regression with sendmail.

We have decided to postpone the EoL date for 8.4 and 8-STABLE to August 1,
2015 to make sure that all known issues have been addressed.

Because this extension is small, freebsd-update(8) will continue to warn about
the approaching EoL for 8.4, and there is no plan to postpone its EoL further.
Existing users of FreeBSD 8.4 or 8-STABLE are advised to upgrade to a newer
release promptly.

The currently supported branches and releases and their expected
end-of-life dates are:

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 |   Branch  |   Release  |  Type  |   Release Date   |     Estimated EoL     |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |stable/8   |n/a         |n/a     |n/a               |August 1, 2015         |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |releng/8.4 |8.4-RELEASE |Extended|June 9, 2013      |August 1, 2015         |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |stable/9   |n/a         |n/a     |n/a               |last release + 2 years |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |releng/9.3 |9.3-RELEASE |Extended|July 16, 2014     |December 31, 2016      |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |stable/10  |n/a         |n/a     |n/a               |last release + 2 years |
 +-----------+------------+--------+------------------+-----------------------+
 |releng/10.1|10.1-RELEASE|Extended|November 14, 2014 |December 31, 2016      |
 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

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Xin Li
Security Officer of the FreeBSD Project
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