Re: 12.3 EOL warning?

On 02/11/2022 15:27, Michael Sierchio wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 11:22 AM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org
> <mailto:kevans@freebsd.org>> wrote:
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>     On Wed, Nov 2, 2022 at 3:15 AM Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org
>     <mailto: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.
>  

I was updating to 12.3-RELEASE-p8 (from -p6 admittedly).

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