From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 1 04:30:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FF91065676 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 04:30:21 +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 B07F914DFC8 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 04:30:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 23232 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2010 04:30:20 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO xps.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 1 Apr 2010 04:30:20 -0000 Message-ID: <4BB4215C.5080600@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:30:20 -0700 From: FreeBSD Security Officer Organization: FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20100329) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd security , FreeBSD Stable X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: HEADS UP: FreeBSD 7.2 EoL coming soon X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: security-officer@freebsd.org List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 04:30:21 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Everyone, On June 30th, FreeBSD 7.2 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 FreeBSD 7.3 before that date; FreeBSD 7.3 will be supported until the end of March 2012. Please note that since FreeBSD 7.1 has been designated for 'Extended' support, it will continue to be supported until the end of January 2011, i.e., FreeBSD 7.1 will be supported longer than FreeBSD 7.2. The End of Life date for FreeBSD 7.2 was originally announced as May 31, but was delayed by one month in accordance with Security Team policy in order to allow a 3 month window between the release of FreeBSD 7.3 and the End of Life of FreeBSD 7.2 to allow time for systems to be upgraded. The freebsd-update(8) utility can be used to upgrade i386 and amd64 systems from 7.2-RELEASE (or 7.2-RELEASE-pX for some X) to 7.3-RELEASE using binary updates (i.e., without compiling from source) as described in the 7.3-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_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 |June 30, 2010 | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_7_3 |7.3-RELEASE |Extended|March 23, 2010 |March 31, 2012 | |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_8 |n/a |n/a |n/a |last release + 2y| |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_8_0 |8.0-RELEASE |Normal |November 25, 2009|November 30, 2010| |-----------+------------+--------+-----------------+-----------------| |RELENG_8_1 |8.1-RELEASE |Extended|not yet |release + 2 years| +---------------------------------------------------------------------+ For clarity, this is NOT an April Fool's joke. - -- 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) iEYEARECAAYFAku0IVsACgkQFdaIBMps37LAGACdEQ5AqnrYOV4/6mLp+F3DB/Fo HIEAniOFbb+YCYdJVT2G1CdGpmpHA1gE =ssY3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----