Created attachment 244374 [details] signed-off .patch From the commit message: > stable/14 was branched on Thursday 2023-08-24, and "Under the current support > model, each major version's stable branch is explicitly supported for > 5 years, …", so its expected end of life is 2028-08-23.
Huh, I always thought it was 5 years after the first release, not 5 years after stable/N branches.
(In reply to Colin Percival from comment #1) Ah! Thanks. My bad. I went by <https://www.freebsd.org/security/#model> alone (the penultimate paragraph) without digging further into <https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-February/001624.html> (which I did read, albeit years ago … its significance was forgotten, sorry). So, the patch is obsolete (and close this report, if you like, it's premature).
Reading <https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.0R/schedule/>: * stable/13 branch created January 22, 2021 * releng/13.0 branch created February 5, 2021 * 13.0-RELEASE press release April 13, 2021 – alongside <https://www.freebsd.org/security/#sup> for stable/13: > … January 31, 2026 I imagine that 31st January was a (generously) rounded-up _end-of-month_ date that aims to keep a five-year promise from when stable/13 was branched. The proper date for an updated patch _might_ be end-of-month August 31, 2028. I'm freewheeling towards bikeshed territory – with a question mark in the summary line, which goes against proper use of Bugzilla (not for discussion) – so I'll pause here, and not provide an update until after re@ can confirm or correct things. Thanks
Can you add releng/14.0 please?
<https://cgit.freebsd.org/doc/commit/?id=ce3449a20a3f2fc879b715bfb8c7ca1530b1189e> This issue is now resolved. Should be closed
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