HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.1 EoL coming soon

FreeBSD Security Officer cperciva at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 31 09:40:52 UTC 2011


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Hello Everyone,

On February 28th, FreeBSD 7.1 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be
supported by the FreeBSD Security Team.  (This was initially scheduled to occur
today, but in light of the imminent arrival of FreeBSD 7.4 I decided to push
it back a month.)  Users of FreeBSD 7.1 are strongly encouraged to upgrade to
either FreeBSD 7.3, FreeBSD 8.1, or the upcoming FreeBSD 7.4 or 8.2 within the
next month.

The current supported branches and expected EoL dates are:

   +---------------------------------------------------------------------+
   |  Branch   |  Release   |  Type  |   Release date  |  Estimated EoL  |
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
   |RELENG_7   |n/a         |n/a     |n/a              |last release + 2y|
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
   |RELENG_7_1 |7.1-RELEASE |Extended|January 4, 2009  |February 28, 2011|
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
   |RELENG_7_3 |7.3-RELEASE |Extended|March 23, 2010   |March 31, 2012   |
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
   |RELENG_7_4 |7.4-RELEASE |Extended|not yet          |release + 2 years|
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
   |RELENG_8   |n/a         |n/a     |n/a              |last release + 2y|
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
   |RELENG_8_1 |8.1-RELEASE |Extended|July 23, 2010    |July 31, 2012    |
   |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------|
   |RELENG_8_2 |8.2-RELEASE |Normal  |not yet          |release + 1 year |
   +---------------------------------------------------------------------+

- -- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve
Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
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