[FreeBSD-Announce] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 9.2 EoL coming soon

[Bartek Rutkowski]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 July 2014 01:56, Xin Li <security-officer at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> Hello Everyone,
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>> On September 30, 2014, FreeBSD 9.2 will reach its End of Life and will
>> no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team.
>
> And what about this part [1]:
> "Releases [...] will be supported by the Security Officer [...] for
> sufficient additional time (if needed) to ensure that there is a newer
> release for at least 3 months before the older Normal release expires."
>
> I parsed this as 9.2 should (could) be supported until after 3 months since
> 9.3-RELEASE. E.g., 9.0 support was extended as 9.1-RELEASE got delayed.
>
> [1] http://security.freebsd.org
>

Given the extension announcement was just sent, I hope we'll remind
users again, somwhere like 3 months and then again 1 month before the
extended EoL happens.

Shouldnt we also add it to the news section of the website so that it
would be visible to more users?

Kind regards,
Bartek Rutkowski