From owner-freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 2 09:37:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A46B8106568B for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 09:37:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from xps.daemonology.net (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 42888150535 for ; Sat, 2 Jan 2010 09:36:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 12918 invoked from network); 2 Jan 2010 09:36:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xps.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Jan 2010 09:36:29 -0000 Message-ID: <4B3F139D.3000604@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:36:29 -0800 From: FreeBSD Security Officer Organization: FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091215) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 12:20:13 +0000 Subject: [FreeBSD-Announce] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 6.3 EoL coming soon X-BeenThere: freebsd-announce@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: security-officer@freebsd.org List-Id: "Project Announcements \[moderated\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:37:33 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, On January 31st, FreeBSD 6.3 will reach its End of Life and will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of this release are strongly encouraged to upgrade to a newer release before that date -- more conservative users will probably wish to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.4 or FreeBSD 7.1 (which are both extended-support branches), while others will probably wish to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.2 or FreeBSD 8.0. The freebsd-update(8) utility can be used to upgrade i386 and amd64 systems from 6.3-RELEASE (or 6.3-RELEASE-pX for some X) to 6.4-RELEASE using binary updates (i.e., without compiling from source) as described in the 6.4-RELEASE announcement; given an adequate internet connection, this process usually takes 15 minutes or less. The current supported branches and expected EoL dates are: +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Branch | Release | Type | Release date | Estimated EoL | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_6 |n/a |n/a |n/a |November 30, 2010| |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_6_3 |6.3-RELEASE |Extended|January 18, 2008 |January 31, 2010 | |---------------------------------------------------------------------| |RELENG_6_4 |6.4-RELEASE |Extended|November 18, 2008|November 30, 2010| |---------------------------------------------------------------------| |RELENG_7 |n/a |n/a |n/a |last release + 2y| |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_7_1 |7.1-RELEASE |Extended|January 4, 2009 |January 31, 2011 | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_7_2 |7.2-RELEASE |Normal |May 4, 2009 |May 31, 2010 | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_8 |n/a |n/a |n/a |last release + 2y| |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_8_0 |8.0-RELEASE |Normal |November 25, 2009|November 30, 2010| +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ - -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAks/E50ACgkQFdaIBMps37LORACeNZtvqhwHmzX2L0+4+AOs2zV2 6EoAoJ6BJndcGVOlrz12CqI9Honfqsaf =B+I9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----