From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 02:11:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12FD616A420 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:11:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (idcmail-mo1so.shaw.ca [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D141313C4A7 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:11:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.110]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JQ400I30WIOEF20@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:08:48 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml10so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.80]) by pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JQ4003DEWIO2H30@pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:08:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.201.197]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0JQ4003CRWINX610@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:08:47 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 2260 invoked from network); Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:08:33 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hexahedron.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:08:33 +0000 Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:08:32 -0700 From: FreeBSD Security Officer To: freebsd security , FreeBSD Stable Message-id: <47180390.8000606@freebsd.org> Organization: FreeBSD Project MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070812) Cc: Subject: FreeBSD 6.2 EoL =~ s/January/May/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: security-officer@freebsd.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 02:11:20 -0000 Hello Everyone, In light of the longer-than-expected window between 6.2-RELEASE and 6.2-RELEASE, the End-of-Life date for FreeBSD 6.2 has been adjusted from January 31st, 2008 to May 31st, 2008. As a result, FreeBSD 5.5, FreeBSD 6.1, and FreeBSD 6.2 will all cease to be supported at the end of May 2008. FreeBSD users should plan on upgrading to either FreeBSD 6.3 or FreeBSD 7.0 once those have been released (hopefully by the end of December). FreeBSD 6.3 will be supported until the end of 2009, while FreeBSD 7.0 will be supported until the end of 2008. Colin Percival FreeBSD Security Officer