FreeBSD long term support (Post 11.0)

[Paul Macdonald]

Am i correct in thinking that for long term support its now more 
advisable to install STABLE as opposed to RELEASE builds?

i.e From: https://www.freebsd.org/security/

"Under the new support model, each major version's stable branch is 
explicitly supported for 5 years, while each individual point release is 
only supported for three months after the next point release."

We've traditionally always installed REL builds, but for example all our 
11.0-REL installs look to be EOL'd within 2 months

/*WARNING: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p8 is approaching its End-of-Life date.*//
//It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer release within 
the next 2 months.//
/
Additionally is there still no way to switch from STABLE->REL, or 
REL->STABLE via freebsd-update?

thanks
Paul.

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