WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

[Adam Vande More]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Matthias Petermann <matthias at d2ux.net>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> from a freshly installed FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE I did a freebsd-update to
> bring
> it to the latest patch level.
>
> After:
>
>         # freebsd-update fetch
>
> I got this message:
>
>         WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
>         It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer
>         release within the next 2 months.
>
> What does this exactly mean?


Means exactly what it says.  9.0 will soon be unsupported.  Things like p1,
p2 etc are patchsets to a release, they are not a release onto themselves.

http://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup

-- 
Adam Vande More