Freebsd-update confusing warning message

Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 13 14:41:45 UTC 2017


On 13/11/2017 14:36, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote:
> What is this telling me?
> 
> # freebsd-update fetch
> . . .
> 
> No updates needed to update system to 11.0-RELEASE-p14.
> 
> WARNING: FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p12 HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE.
> Any security issues discovered after Tue Oct 31 19:59:59 EDT 2017
> will not have been corrected.
> 
> 

It's telling you to update to 11.1-RELEASE.  If you think that surely
you "only just went to 11.0 and it can't be EoL already?" then read this:

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

	Cheers,

	Matthew


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