Upcoming Releases Schedule...

[Wesley Shields]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:24:04PM -0700, Nathan Way wrote:
> > 
> > Where can one find the expected EoL for these releases?  I've poked
> > around the website and can't find any notes mentioning this, although
> > several people have been making posts suggesting that people should
> > review the EoL schedule when planning their upgrades.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#supported-branches
> 
> To quote from the above web site:
> 
> Branch      Release     Type      Release Date        Estimated EoL
> RELENG_6    n/a         n/a       n/a                 January 31, 2010
> RELENG_6_3  6.3-RELEASE Extended  January 18, 2008    January 31, 2010
> RELENG_7    n/a         n/a       n/a                 last release + 2
> years
> RELENG_7_0  7.0-RELEASE Normal    February 27, 2008   February 28, 2009

These are the existing releases.  I believe Jo was looking for EoL for
7.1 and 6.4 once they are released.  The answer to that is not clear -
nor do I know if it should be clear yet.  I don't know when the type of
support decision is made, but I suspect it's not this early in the
process.

-- WXS