Author: Mark Linimon Last updated: Sun Mar 22 04:50:04 CDT 2009

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.

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

schedule showing full lifetimes of RELENG-6/7

Current proposed FreeBSD support schedule graph -- overall

schedule based around RELENG-6 lifetime

Current proposed FreeBSD support schedule graph -- based on 6-STABLE

schedule based around RELENG-7 lifetime

Current proposed FreeBSD support schedule graph -- based on 7-STABLE

ports milestones (including freezes)

Historical FreeBSD ports milestones

notes

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

The data for releases previous to 4.5, and for 5.0-DP1 and 5.0-DP2, are harder to figure out.