11 will be supported for no less than 5 years FWIW, this was how long we typically supported releases anyway -- FreeBSD 6.x was supported from November 2005 un

11 will be supported for no less than 5 years FWIW, this was how long we typically supported releases anyway -- FreeBSD 6.x was supported from November 2005 until November 2010, FreeBSD 7.x was supported from February 2008 until February 2013, FreeBSD 8.x from November 2009 until June 2015, and FreeBSD 9.x from January 2012 until December 2016 -- but we heard from users that a promise was far more useful than a vague "well, typically...". Whenever a new point release is made (e.g. 11.1) all previous point releases will be deprecated after 3 months (e.g. 11.0) This is really the most important change, and addresses a problem we've had for a while: When a point release comes out, we have no idea how long it will be until the next point release. For both users and the security team, knowing the end of the support period relative to the arrival of the next point release (i.e., the overlap time) turns out to be more important than knowing the end of the support period relative to the start of the support period.