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[Matthew Seaman]

On 04/06/2016 14:50, Grzegorz Junka wrote:
> 
> On 04/06/2016 13:45, Matthew Seaman wrote:
>> On 03/06/2016 17:23, Bob Eager wrote:
>>> Why not just use odd numbered releases? That's what I do. They have a
>>> longer support cycle.
>> Remember though that this model is changing with 11.0 release.  With the
>> new model, it's the 11.x family as a whole that has the long term
>> support and individual releases such as 11.0 or 11.1 will cease to be
>> supported very shortly after the next release in that series comes out.
>> The last release in that series will then have a long support life so
>> that 11.x as a whole has something like a 5 year lifecycle[*].  The
>> transitions from 11.0 -> 11.1 -> 11.2 -> ... are meant to be something
>> you could apply pretty much routinely; much as you'ld apply a new
>> patch-level today.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Matthew
>>
>> [*] which is pretty much the same length as the the lifecycle of
>> previous major branches has been up to now.
>>
> 
> Is there somewhere any more information available about this change?
> 

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8991960

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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