From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 11 21:39:46 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85E2416A46E for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:39:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from bifrost.locolomo.org (97.pool85-48-194.static.orange.es [85.48.194.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B48E13C4D3 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:39:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from sleipner.local (unknown [192.168.0.37]) by bifrost.locolomo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 193AD39824; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:39:45 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <475F03A0.2030807@locolomo.org> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:39:44 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Ham, Jason B. [C]" References: <98C277567E731946AF64A9008432DD0A053D0EA1@XCGSTL01.gold.rtgold.nima.mil> In-Reply-To: <98C277567E731946AF64A9008432DD0A053D0EA1@XCGSTL01.gold.rtgold.nima.mil> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Version 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:39:46 -0000 Ham, Jason B. [C] wrote: > I have a question as to whether there is support for the free bsd > version 5.4. Please advise. The latest and last release on the RELENG_5 branch is 5.5, 5.4 is not supported as I understand. In any case it is a good idea to plan migration to 6.x or 7.0. 6.x will become legacy release branch once 7.0 is released. Regarding 5.5: "This is the last planned release on the 5-STABLE branch. The FreeBSD development community is currently focusing its efforts on the 6-STABLE and CURRENT codelines. No new major features are planned for the 5-STABLE branch, although minor updates and bugfixes may be merged at the discretion of individual developers. The FreeBSD security team will support the FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE-based security branch with advisories and security patches until the end-of-life date documented at http://security.freebsd.org/ (as of this writing, May 31, 2008)." Cheers, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818 http://www.locolomo.org