Re: misc/50095: Can't find EOL information

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/50095; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/50095: Can't find EOL information
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 08:28:18 +0200

 You can find some information about actively maintained branches
 here:
 
 	http://wiki.netbsd.org/releng/
 
 The general release numbering scheme is explained here:
 
 	http://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html
 
 and especially:
 
 	http://www.netbsd.org/releases/release-map.html#graph1
 
 
 Short summary: two major release branches are actively supported; shortly
 after the (coming soon, hopefully) release of NetBSD 7.0 we will EOL
 all netbsd-5 branches.
 
 This is spelled out in all security advisories, for example:
 
 http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2015-003.txt.asc
 
 which says:
 
 	Please note that NetBSD releases prior to 5.1 are no longer supported.
 	It is recommended that all users upgrade to a supported release.
 
 
 Does this answer your questions? Let me know if you need more/other details.
 
 Martin