Re: 12.3 EOL warning?

On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 11:22 AM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 3:15 AM Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote:
> >
> > Patching a 12.3 system to deal with the latest security advisory I got
> >
> > WARNING: FreeBSD 12.3-RELEASE-p6 is approaching its End-of-Life date.
> > It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer
> > release within the next 2 months.
>
>
> freebsd-update metadata includes the EoL date, which we don't
> typically know when a release is cut since it depends on an
> undetermined schedule for the next release. I asked secteam@ a while
> back if we could just specify the end of branch as the EoL for new
> releases until re@ confirms a schedule to tune that back with (which
> makes sense, since it *will* be the end of the branch if all of re@
> decides that a nice prolonged beach vacation sounds more fun). I don't
> know that that went anywhere, but we really need to do something to
> avoid this kind of question coming up because we get it wrong more
> often than not. CC secteam@.
>

Updating to 12.3-RELEASE-p7 quiets the warning.