Long Term support versions?

[Steve O'Hara-Smith]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 05:18:10 -0700
"@lbutlr" <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:

> On 13 Nov 2018, at 04:15, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 03:50:16 -0700 "@lbutlr" <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
> >> And 11,2 is the only current version I see
> >> <https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.2R/announce.html>, but it is
> >> marked to be EOLed at 11.3 +3month so where is a stable release that
> >> will have a longer support window?
> > 
> > 	There isn't one, at least not until 11.<final> whatever <final>
> > may be (I'd guess 3 or 4 but that's just my guess), that will remain
> > supported until September 2021 which may be long enough for 12.<final>
> > to arrive. I'd like to think that, ultimately, tracking n.<final> will
> > become a viable strategy.
> 
> IIRC, this has not been the case in the past. Certainly all support for
> 10.x expired long before 11.2-RELEASE and we're quite a long way from

	That is true, but the current support model is new. Looking back
over the release history it's very hard to guess when 11.<final> might
happen 3 or 4 seems likely but the lifespan of a major release seems to
vary from two and a half years to nearly four.

	I'm hoping for it to work out that way, but it certainly hasn't been
stated as a policy.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>