Re: Why is freebsd-update telling me 13.0 is EOL? 13.1 isn't visibly even in beta.

> Hi,
>
> The freebsd-update metadata contains an EoL date that is (presumably)
> solely for displaying this message. Right now, we don't know an exact
> EoL date of most minor releases until the next minor release schedule
> is published, so a projected EoL date is included and updated once the
> new release is published.
>
> I'm trying to get this changed to use the branch EoL before we know
> when the exact EoL is; the working theory is that nobody uses this
> metadata to actually gauge a minor release's EoL, so we'd be better
> off setting it to the branch-end until we know better rather than
> alerting people this way.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kyle Evans

Thanks Kyle. The change sounds sensible.

-G