On 04/06/2016 14:50, Grzegorz Junka wrote: > > On 04/06/2016 13:45, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> On 03/06/2016 17:23, Bob Eager wrote: >>> Why not just use odd numbered releases? That's what I do. They have a >>> longer support cycle. >> Remember though that this model is changing with 11.0 release. With the >> new model, it's the 11.x family as a whole that has the long term >> support and individual releases such as 11.0 or 11.1 will cease to be >> supported very shortly after the next release in that series comes out. >> The last release in that series will then have a long support life so >> that 11.x as a whole has something like a 5 year lifecycle[*]. The >> transitions from 11.0 -> 11.1 -> 11.2 -> ... are meant to be something >> you could apply pretty much routinely; much as you'ld apply a new >> patch-level today. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Matthew >> >> [*] which is pretty much the same length as the the lifecycle of >> previous major branches has been up to now. >> > > Is there somewhere any more information available about this change? >
https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8991960 Cheers, Matthew
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