Rumors of 4.x death greatly exagerated (was: Re: Anyonemaintaining / care about 4.x anymore ?)

[Marc G. Fournier]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Robert Watson wrote:

>
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>> Since I'm under the impression that 4.10 is/was meant to be 'end of
>> line', is anyone looking at / dealing with bug reports for 4.x anymore?
>
> Rumors of 4.x's death are greatly exagerated.  We plan to continue
> supporting 4.x well into the future with security fixes, stability fixes,
> and at least one additional release (which would imply additional
> features, wot?).  The reality is that even if we did "end of life" 4.x, it
> would remain in use for years to come, and we're hardly going to ignore
> that :-).  If you look at the FreeBSD Release Engineering web page, you'll
> see that 4.11 is on the impending release list, but doesn't yet have a
> schedule assigned.  Right now we're largely focussing on getting 5.3 ready
> to go out the door.

Nope, that's perfect ... thank you for the answer ... personally, I'm 
looking forward to 5.x moving into STABLE mode, and starting to shift my 
servers over to it :)

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