Solved Does STABLE go EOL when MAIN branch does?

Phishfry

Phishfry

Regarding FreeBSD-13.5-RELEASE now being EOL I noticed the latest patches were applied after EOL and thank everyone involved.

My question being does 13-STABLE now get no security patches? Because main branch is EOL?

If somebody backported patches to 13-STABLE would they be applied or is it a dead end?
 
to clarify: the "main" branch is the latest development sources, which is 16.0-CURRENT. the main branch is not, and will never become EOL.

13-STABLE is the stable/13 branch. as far as i know there's no technical restriction on committing to this branch after the EOL date, but i would be surprised if anyone was interested in doing that unless perhaps a very serious issue is discovered in the next couple of months. as an example, the sshd RCE was fixed in stable/12 after the EOL date, but that was done unofficially (i.e., outside of secteam) and doesn't mean there aren't other serious security issues in that branch that were left unfixed.

there will definitely not be any more commits to releng/13.5, since those require explicit approval from secteam.
 
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