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

From: Robert Watson (rwatson_at_FreeBSD.rog)
Date: 07/28/04

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To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>

    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.

    Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
    robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research

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