[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Tomasz CEDRO]

Why so short End-Of-Life? Why so many fast and short releases? What for?

Why pushing problems to production? What was wrong with having one
well tested stable system for a long time?

12.0 was a problematic release. 12.1 brings even more problems.

To be honest X11 Video Acceleration DRM mess and dramatic
Virtualization with VirtualBox brings back my MacBook to the desk
because FreeBSD does not seem to be reliable desktop environment
anymore even on a decent modern machine :-(

Is it really necessary? What happened to FreeBSD? :-(

Tomek


On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:14 AM FreeBSD Security Officer wrote:
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> Dear FreeBSD community,
>
> As of February 29, 2020, FreeBSD 12.0 will reach end-of-life and will no longer
> be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team.  Users of FreeBSD 12.0 are strongly
> encouraged to upgrade to a newer release as soon as possible.
>
> The currently supported branches and releases and their expected end-of-life
> dates are:
>
>  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>  |   Branch    |   Release    |  Release Date     |      Estimated EoL      |
>  +-------------+--------------+-------------------+-------------------------+
>  | stable/12   | N/A          | N/A               | June 30, 2024           |
>  +-------------+--------------+-------------------+-------------------------+
>  | releng/12.1 | 12.1-RELEASE | November 4, 2019  | 12.2-RELEASE + 3 months |
>  +-------------+--------------+-------------------+-------------------------+
>  | stable/11   | N/A          | N/A               | September 30, 2021      |
>  +-------------+--------------+-------------------+-------------------------+
>  | releng/11.3 | 11.3-RELEASE | July 9, 2019      | 11.4-RELEASE + 3 months |
>  +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
>
> Please refer to https://security.freebsd.org/ for an up-to-date list of
> supported releases and the latest security advisories.
>
> - --
> The FreeBSD Security Team
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