Re: Change to FreeBSD release scheduling and support period vs.

From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd_at_quip.cz>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 14:13:26 UTC 
On 23/09/2024 00:32, Mark Millard wrote:

[..]

> https://www.freebsd.org/security/unsupported/
> 
> lists:
> 
> releng/13.0 13.0-RELEASE n/a April 13, 2021 August 31, 2022
> 
> and the announcement's wording with "supported until 5 years after
> 13.0" is not explicit about the 2021-April-13 vs. 2022-Aug-31 for
> the start of the 5 years --but the security table suggests the
> 2021-Apr-13 as the start of the about 5 years.
> 
> So it looks to me like releng/13.4 possibly should have "Expected
> EOL" listed as something like "13.5-RELEASE + 3 months", much like
> releng/14.1 lists "14.2-RELEASE + 3 months". In other words: it
> probably should mention the next 13.* release number (13.5) in
> some way.


For the more confusion, 13.4 errata page [1] say: "This errata document 
for FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE will be maintained until the release of FreeBSD 
13.5-RELEASE." missing + 3 months.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.4R/errata/

Kind regards
Miroslav Lachman