Erroneous EOL Message on 12.2-RELEASE-p12

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darmokandjalad

According to the FreeBSD website, 12.2-RELEASE isn't yet out of support [0], and its end-of-life date is 31 March 2022. [1]

User covacat pointed out in the thread How to detect END-OF-LIFE on an OS release via script? that `freebsd-update` determines EOL status by fetching and decrypting this file:


When you decrypt this file with the cert at /var/db/freebsd-update/pub.ssl, you get:

freebsd-update|amd64|12.2-RELEASE|12|4f3ba292a3473fffed65badd7b53baeadf3f014cfc4f130b4eb3b5b3317171d2|1643587200

The last field is an epoch timestamp that represents 2022-01-30T19:00:00 EST. I presume this is a field meaning "EOL" date.

Can anyone advise whom I can contact at the FreeBSD Foundation to correct this? When I run `freebsd-update` on a 12.2-RELEASE machine, I get a scary message saying I'm running an unsupported OS.

Thanks!

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/security/unsupported/
[1] https://www.freebsd.org/security/
 
darmokandjalad said:
When I run `freebsd-update` on a 12.2-RELEASE machine, I get a scary message saying I'm running an unsupported OS.
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You're going to need to upgrade anyway. Because it WILL be EoL at the end of March. It's just a friendly warning, so you can plan ahead. Which you could have seen coming, old minor versions always expire three months after the release of a new minor version (12.3 was released in December, which automatically means 12.2 will be EoL three months later)
 
Oh, no doubt there, SirDice. I usually upgrade sooner, but was planning on upgrading in February this time. This is the first time I've ever seen this warning from freebsd-upgrade conflicting with the published EOL date, is all.
 
You don't often get security/errata issues close to an EoL date. So you usually don't notice it.
 
I too thought 12.2 eol was March, but per the notice below it's already eol. I upgraded to 12.3 already, just thought I'd share since it was an unexpected notice.

No updates needed to update system to 12.2-RELEASE-p12.

WARNING: FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p12 HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE.
Any security issues discovered after Sun Jan 30 16:00:00 PST 2022
will not have been corrected.
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MattS said:
per the notice below it's already eol.
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Thanks. Please see:

forums.freebsd.org

FreeBSD release engineering

The FreeBSD Project | FreeBSD Release Engineering 13.1-RELEASE estimated some time in early 2022 at . for an official release schedule does not yet exist. release schedule is that there's a release every 6 months. FreeBSD 12.3 is up next, that will be released some time in December...
forums.freebsd.org forums.freebsd.org

– in particular, the postscripts under <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/553459>
 
This one really is a little premature though:
Code: 
WARNING: FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE-p4 is approaching its End-of-Life date.
It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer
release within the next 2 months.

It's gone after you update to p6.
 
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