Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

[Colin Percival]

Danny Pansters wrote:
> inevitably there will be some 5.X maintanance 
> release that will go on for a long time. Does anyone really doubt that? I 
> don't, also consider that 4.X will have to be phased out ASAP (or be prepared 
> to support 3 system compilers, I don't think so, no one would like that for a 
> long time). There's not much need for concern IMHO altogether.

FreeBSD 4.11 will be supported until at least January 2007.

The last FreeBSD 5.x release (whichever it happens to be -- that's for
the release engineering team to decide) will be supported for two years
from its release date.

Colin Percival