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

[Doug Hardie]

On 15 November 2012, at 14:46, Matthias Petermann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 14:35:52 -0800
> Michael Sierchio <kudzu at tenebras.com> wrote:
> 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/security/
>> 
>> Scroll down about halfway.  9.0 is a regular release, EOL is January 31, 2013.
>> 
>> Alternate releases are extended releases, so 9.1 will have a 2 year
>> support span.
> 
> Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it possible, to upgrade
> from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility? 

Yes.  I have done that from 9.0 to 9.1-RC1 and later RC2.  It takes longer than you would like, but works just fine.