How long do you go without upgrading FreeBSD to a newer release?

[Outback Dingo]

then stay with what you have if its working, no need to upgrade, unless
theres new feature you can use,
after you are confident its runs the same or better in pre-production with
all the apps you use, ive still got a 4.10 box

On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello folks
>
> Just a thought/question that has recently come to my mind: How long do
> you usually wait until upgrading to a newer release of FreeBSD? I am
> sure there are lots of people who upgrade straight away, but what
> about the opposite? What's your oldest currently running installation,
> do you have any issues and are you planning on an upgrade or do you
> intend to leave it running as is until some critical piece of hardware
> breaks down, requiring a replacement?
>
> The reason I am asking is: I have a 8.0 installation that I am VERY
> happy with. It runs like clockwork. eveything is properly configured
> and highly locked down, all services accessible to the outside world
> are running inside ezjail-managed jails on top of ZFS, meaning it's
> also very trivial to restore jails via snapshots, should the need ever
> arise. I don't really see myself NEEDING to upgrade for many years.
> even long after security updates stop being made for 8.0, since I can
> see myself being able to at least work my way around arising security
> issues with my configuration and to break into the real host OS and
> cause real damage would mean you have to be either really really
> dedicated, have a gun and know where I live or serve me with a
> warrant.
>
> Do you liva by the "If it's not broken, don't fix it" mantra or do you
> religiously keep your OS installations up to date?
>
>
> - Sincerely,
> Dan Naumov
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