From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 13 06:16:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8612716A403; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:16:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B010943D53; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:16:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C2246DF9; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 02:16:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:16:26 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Garance A Drosihn In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20061013071320.K84892@fledge.watson.org> References: <451F6E8E.8020301@freebsd.org> <20061011102106.GY1594@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <20061011151458.L97038@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20061011083021.C2780@treehorn.dfmm.org> <452D7351.6050804@obluda.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Dan Lukes , freebsd security , security-officer@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: [fbsd] HEADS UP: FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, 6.0 EoLs coming soon X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 06:16:29 -0000 On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Your 4.x system is not doing to die when we EOL 4.x. We're only > saying that it is not going to see any additional work on it in > the official FreeBSD repository. Actually, we're not even saying that. We're just saying that it will no longer be officially supported. I anticipate that we will continue to see a gradual smattering of 4.x commits fixing critical bugs and so on, we just won't be covering it in security advisories, etc. That said, I'v eworked hard over the last two or three months to phase out 4.x for my production servers, and was quite pleased with how easily the 6.x transition went on the last few remaining ones. One of the big motivating features for me to move forward was actually audit support, but then, I suppose it would be :-). Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge