Re: FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE timeline

On 12/1/25 2:34 AM, Mark Millard wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2025, at 22:28, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 30, 2025, at 22:20, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 30, 2025, at 22:05, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dennis Clarke <dclarke_at_blastwave.org> wrote on

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> An illustration of the schedule out to 17.0 is at:
> 
> https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/navigating-freebsds-new-quarterly-and-biennial-release-schedule.94183/
>

Now that is very handly :

https://freebsdfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/gantt-freebsd.jpg

That could ( should ? ) be posted on the FreeBSD Supported Releases page
  here : https://www.freebsd.org/releases/

Very handy to see that 15.x will have long legs into the end of 2029.


> If accurate in how it shows overlaps, there would be a
> period with all the following active:
> 
> 14.6 15.3 15.4 16.0 16.1 main
> (2028-Jun)
> 
> and a later period with:
> 
> 14.6 15.4 15.5 16.0 16.1 main
> (2028-Sep)

Yes, I see that. Very handly little chart. Perfect for the supported
releases page don't ya think?

> 
> Hopefully there will be more aarch64 port-package builder
> machines active by then.  With quarterly and latest
> for all but main and with armv7 suspended, that would be
> 11 combinations to cover during those periods.

I have yet to see anything other than amd64 really be super stable and
reliable. I am sure there is a server somewhere based on aarch64 but I
just do not see the point. I would much rather see IBM POWER9 as a real
solid option but that requires 16M USD and a well paid team of engineers
for a year or two just to get a reasonable beta. Sadly.

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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken

ps: I still have an ORACLE S7-2 server running Solaris 11.4 and Gentoo
       because nothing else runs.