Lifetime of FreeBSD branches

Colin Percival cperciva at freebsd.org
Mon May 23 12:43:13 PDT 2005


Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Could someone point me to a resource that outlines the expected supported
> lifetime of all the branches? Can't find anything concrete on the webpage.

http://www.freebsd.org/security/

In addition to the material there (which is concerned with existing releases),
FreeBSD 5.x is expected to be supported until late 2007 (FreeBSD 5.5 plus two
years), and FreeBSD 6.x will probably be supported until early 2009 (the last
FreeBSD 6.x release plus two years).

Colin Percival


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