Clarify some EoL policies. In particular, we extend EoLs as needed to

allow a few months between a new release coming out and an old release
hitting its EoL.

Add FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE.
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Colin Percival 2009-01-05 20:52:36 +00:00
parent 9a6fa73bdf
commit 1ed254c771
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-08 03:00:23 +00:00
svn path=/www/; revision=33653

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<!ENTITY base CDATA "..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/security/security.sgml,v 1.202 2008/09/20 11:27:12 simon Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/security/security.sgml,v 1.203 2008/11/29 13:44:15 cperciva Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD Security Information">
<!ENTITY % navinclude.support "INCLUDE">
<!ENTITY % developers SYSTEM "../developers.sgml"> %developers;
<!ENTITY advisories.html.inc SYSTEM "advisories.html.inc">
]>
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/security/security.sgml,v 1.202 2008/09/20 11:27:12 simon Exp $ -->
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/security/security.sgml,v 1.203 2008/11/29 13:44:15 cperciva Exp $ -->
<html>
&header;
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<dt>Normal</dt>
<dd>Releases which are published from a -STABLE branch will be
supported by the Security Officer for a minimum of 12 months after the
release.</dd>
release, and for sufficient additional time (if needed) to ensure
that there is a newer release for at least 3 months before the
older Normal relase expires.
</dd>
<dt>Extended</dt>
<dd>Selected releases will be supported by the Security Officer for a
minimum of 24 months after the release.</dd>
<dd>Selected releases (normally every second release plus the last
release from each -STABLE branch) will be supported by the
Security Officer for a minimum of 24 months after the release,
and for sufficient additional time (if needed) to ensure that
there is a newer Extended release for at least 3 months before the
older Extended release expires.
</dd>
</dl>
<a name="supported-branches"></a>
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<td>7.0-RELEASE</td>
<td>Normal</td>
<td>February 27, 2008</td>
<td>February 28, 2009</td>
<td>April 30, 2009</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>RELENG_7_1</td>
<td>7.1-RELEASE</td>
<td>Extended</td>
<td>January 4, 2009</td>
<td>January 31, 2011</td>
</tr>
</table>