FreeBSD 6.2 EoL =~ s/January/May/

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 18 18:38:45 PDT 2007


FreeBSD Security Officer wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> In light of the longer-than-expected window between 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-RELEASE,
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This should read "between 6.2-RELEASE and 6.3-RELEASE", of course...

> the End-of-Life date for FreeBSD 6.2 has been adjusted from January 31st, 2008
> to May 31st, 2008.  As a result, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will
> all cease to be supported at the end of May 2008.
> 
> FreeBSD users should plan on upgrading to either FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 once
> those have been released (hopefully by the end of December).  FreeBSD 6.3 will
> be supported until the end of 2009, while FreeBSD 7.0 will be supported until
> the end of 2008.
> 
> Colin Percival
> FreeBSD Security Officer


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