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

From: Colin Percival (cperciva_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 04/18/05

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    Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 20:22:51 -0700
To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>

    Brett Glass wrote:
    > At 07:42 PM 4/17/2005, Colin Percival wrote:
    >>FreeBSD 4.11 will be supported until at least January 2007.
    >
    > Any chance of a 4.12, incorporating some of the last bits
    > that have been brought into 4-STABLE...

    Unless someone wants to step forward with an offer to pay the
    salaries of the release engineering team for a few months, I
    think that a safe answer to this question is "no".

    > especially the
    > security fixes?

    Eh? If the important part is the security fixes, why not just
    install 4.11 and then apply the security fixes?

    Colin Percival
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