[HEADS UP] Binary packages for FreeBSD 11 to require 11.3 soon

[Jan Beich]

René Ladan <rene at freebsd.org> writes:

> Op do 10 okt. 2019 04:19 schreef Jan Beich <jbeich at freebsd.org>:
>
>> FreeBSD 11.3 was released on 2019-07-09. After adding 3 months support
>> overlap it'd be 2019-10-09 (yesterday).
>
> Not so fast...
>
> The three month overlap period has indeed expiree, but is traditionally
> rounded up to the end of the month,  so 2019-10-31. See
> https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup

Looking at previous EOL on 11.* branch it seems you're right. However,
11.0 EOL was extended by 1 month while 11.1 EOL was already close to the
end of the month. Hardly enough to establish the tradition.

> An official announcement from secteam should be out soon.

Why did secteam@ wait 3 months to establish exact EOL date? Such
unpredictability hurts planning. For one, port maintainers need plannig
when to remove their 11.2 jails because pre-commit QA doesn't exist
outside of private resources of maintainers/committers.