Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release?

From: Colin Percival (cperciva_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 04/13/05

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    Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:07:26 -0700
To: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net>

    Clifton Royston wrote:
    > In the next month or two I've got to upgrade a number of servers that
    > are currently on an EOL'd version of 4-STABLE. I foresee that I'll
    > have very limited time to do full OS upgrades on these systems in the
    > coming several years, so I want to make sure I bring them onto an
    > extended-life branch.

    My personal recommendation is to put them on FreeBSD 5.3 right now, and
    to move up to 5.4 when it is released. Minor version upgrades are really
    easy in FreeBSD -- once I had downloaded the ISO image, it took me all of
    five minutes to upgrade from FreeBSD 5.3 to 5.4-BETA1. (I have detailed
    instructions online on doing the 4.8->4.11 upgrade, and I'll put similar
    instructions online about the 5.3->5.4 upgrade once 5.4 is released.)

    > If 5.4 is expected to be an extended-life branch, I would consider
    > moving them up to 5.4 instead, to get a leap on current technology.
    > Has that decision been made yet?

    No. The decision will be made around a week after the release, when the
    security team takes over the branch from the release engineering team.

    That said, we're currently leaning towards not making 5.4 an extended
    support branch -- but this will depend largely upon how many more releases
    there are from the 5.x branch. We are committed to providing extended
    support for the last release from any major branch, so if you install 5.x
    now and can perform minor-version upgrades (again, neither difficult nor
    time consuming) then you can expect security support until at least the
    second half of 2007.

    Colin Percival
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