RE: Change to FreeBSD release scheduling and support period vs.

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-announce/2024-July/000143.html

From: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 02:16:14 UTC

lists:

>         Release EoL
> 13.3: Mar 2024 Dec 2024
> .  . .
> 13.4: Sep 2024 Jun 2025
> . . .
> 13.5: Mar 2025 Apr 2026*
> . . .
> * 13.5 and 14.6 are supported until 5 years after 13.0 and 14.0 respectively.

Note the explicit 13.5 release mentions.

However, https://www.freebsd.org/security/ makes no mention of 13.5:

> Branch Release Release Date Expected EoLstable/14 n/a n/a November 30, 2028
> . . .
> stable/13 n/a n/a April 30, 2026
> releng/13.4 13.4-RELEASE September 17, 2024 June 30, 2025
> releng/13.3 13.3-RELEASE March 5, 2024 December 31, 2024

It reads is as if releng/13.4 was to be the last 13.*-RELEASE .

I'll note that:

https://www.freebsd.org/security/unsupported/

lists:

releng/13.0 13.0-RELEASE n/a April 13, 2021 August 31, 2022

and the announcement's wording with "supported until 5 years after
13.0" is not explicit about the 2021-April-13 vs. 2022-Aug-31 for
the start of the 5 years --but the security table suggests the
2021-Apr-13 as the start of the about 5 years.

So it looks to me like releng/13.4 possibly should have "Expected
EOL" listed as something like "13.5-RELEASE + 3 months", much like
releng/14.1 lists "14.2-RELEASE + 3 months". In other words: it
probably should mention the next 13.* release number (13.5) in
some way.

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com