Here are some unofficial graphs of the current proposed FreeBSD release and support schedule, based on current published data.

For purposes of this chart, I am using "qa" to mean "the time between when a CVS branch is frozen and a release is made"; I am using "support" to indicate support of a release by the Security Team. (No other developers are necessarily committed to supporting anything they don't wish to.) See the notes for more information.

The latest projections are based on 2 months of development followed by two months of the tree being open. This is speculative.

Disclaimer: I am on neither re@ nor core@ nor secteam@ and as such this document is completely unofficial.

schedule based around RELENG-5-STABLE

schedule based around RELENG-6-STABLE

combined schedule (hard to read!)

ports milestones (including freezes)

See the data in tabular notation, including notes about the methodology.