freebsd-security Digest, Vol 246, Issue 1

[Chris Kesler]

Sorry.  Please disregard.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Chris Kesler <kesl0001 at rigel4.net> wrote:
> Here's another project for us.  We'll want to upgrade to 6.3-RELEASE in May.
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>  >    1. HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.5, 6.1, and 6.2 EoLs coming soon
>  >       (FreeBSD Security Officer)
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>  >
>  > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  > From: FreeBSD Security Officer <cperciva at freebsd.org>
>  > To: freebsd security <freebsd-security at freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
>  > Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 12:47:06 -0400
>  > Subject: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.5, 6.1, and 6.2 EoLs coming soon
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>  >  Hello Everyone,
>  >
>  >  On May 31st, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will have reached
>  >  their End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security
>  >  Team.  Since FreeBSD 5.5 is the last remaining supported release from the
>  >  FreeBSD 5.x stable branch, support for the FreeBSD 5.x stable branch will
>  >  also cease at the same point.  Users of any of these FreeBSD releases are
>  >  strongly encouraged to upgrade to either FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 before
>  >  that date.
>  >
>  >  Please note that the End of Life dates for FreeBSD 5.5 and FreeBSD 6.1
>  >  were announced in May 2006; and the End of Life for FreeBSD 6.2, which
>  >  was originally announced as January 31, 2008, has been extended by four
>  >  months in order to allow time for users to upgrade.
>  >
>  >  The FreeBSD Ports Management Team wishes to inform users that May 31st (the
>  >  security team's End-Of-Support date for FreeBSD 5.x) will also be the end
>  >  of support for the Ports Collection on both 5.5-RELEASE and the 5-STABLE
>  >  branch.  Neither the infrastructure nor individual ports are guaranteed to
>  >  work on these FreeBSD versions after that date.  A CVS tag will be created
>  >  for users who cannot upgrade for some reason; as of that commit, these users
>  >  are advised to stop tracking the latest ports CVS repository and instead
>  >  stay with the version as of that tag.
>  >
>  >  The current supported branches and expected EoL dates are:
>  >
>  >    +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
>  >    |  Branch   |  Release   |  Type  |   Release date  |  Estimated EoL  |
>  >    |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
>  >    |RELENG_5   |n/a         |n/a     |n/a              |May 31, 2008     |
>  >    |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
>  >    |RELENG_5_5 |5.5-RELEASE |Extended|May 25, 2006     |May 31, 2008     |
>  >    |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
>  >    |RELENG_6   |n/a         |n/a     |n/a              |last release + 2y|
>  >    |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
>  >    |RELENG_6_1 |6.1-RELEASE |Extended|May 9, 2006      |May 31, 2008     |
>  >    |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
>  >    |RELENG_6_2 |6.2-RELEASE |Normal  |January 15, 2007 |May 31, 2008     |
>  >    |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
>  >    |RELENG_6_3 |6.3-RELEASE |Extended|January 18, 2008 |January 31, 2010 |
>  >    |---------------------------------------------------------------------|
>  >    |RELENG_7   |n/a         |n/a     |n/a              |last release + 2y|
>  >    |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
>  >    |RELENG_7_0 |7.0-RELEASE |Normal  |February 27, 2008|February 28, 2009|
>  >    +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
>  >
>  >  Colin Percival
>  >  FreeBSD Security Officer
>  >
>  >  P.S. For clarity, this is NOT an April Fool's joke.
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