Bug 29182

Summary: Handbook needs to be updated to reflect security support changes
Product: Documentation Reporter: Tony Fleisher <takhus>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: freebsd-doc (Nobody) <doc>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Tony Fleisher 2001-07-24 01:20:02 UTC 
	Section 20.2 "FreeBSD-CURRENT vs. FreeBSD-STABLE" of 
	The FreeBSD Handbook needs to be updated to reflect the
	changes announced by the Security Officer in the 11 May 2001
	annoucement "Changes to FreeBSD security support policy",
	specifically this paragraph is not true (and, in fact, 
	is contradicted by the annoucement): 
	
	(In section 20.2.2.2)
		Tracking FreeBSD-STABLE also gives you easy access to 
		security fixes for FreeBSD as they are released.  
		However, you do not need to track FreeBSD-STABLE to do this, 
		as every security advisory for FreeBSD explains how to 
		   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
		fix the problem for the releases it affects.
				^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Fix: 

I think that some combination of updating this section of the
	Handbook and perhaps adding a new section "Supported Releases" 
	(which is kept up to date) is needed to fix this inconsistancy.
Comment 1 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-09-02 23:26:06 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

A footnote has been added that admits we can't support old versions of 
FreeBSD forever, and points the user to freebsd.org/security for 
detailed information about which branches/releases are supported. 
Thanks for the submission!