Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:30:11 -0500 From: Chris Marlatt <cmarlatt@rxsec.com> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What about BIND 9.3.4 in FreeBSD in base system ? Message-ID: <45BFC6F3.2060907@rxsec.com> In-Reply-To: <20070130221333.GP892@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <001601c74428$ff9d54b0$ab76ed54@odipw> <45BEE27D.1050804@FreeBSD.org> <45BFA1B3.9040000@rxsec.com> <20070130221333.GP892@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Tue, 2007-Jan-30 14:51:15 -0500, Chris Marlatt wrote: >> Doug Barton wrote: >>> plan to MFC it after 4 or 5 days. I am actually considering only >>> MFC'ing it to RELENG_6 to help provide some incentive for those on 5.x >>> to upgrade. >> One would assume that the release would be supported up until the EOL >> provided on freebsd.org of May 31, 2008. > > "Support" does not mean that new features and upgrades are automatically > back-ported. Security fixes and some bug-fixes will be provided. If you > want new features, you may need to upgrade (hence Doug's suggestion that > not MFCing bind 9.3.4 to RELENG_5 is an incentive to upgrade to 6.x). > Quite true, but as recent as the release of 5.5 (as well as all past 5 series releases) BIND was updated. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.5R/relnotes-i386.html#CONTRIB Is it unfair to assume this would continue to happen, if at the very least to RELENG_5?
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