Any idea how close we are to FreeBSD 10.4 release date?
There will not be a 9.4-RELEASE as the whole 9 major version will be End-of-Life at the end of this year.
So 9.x and 10.x will still follow the 'old' schedule.These changes are planned to become effective with FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE, which is still a number of months away.
FreeBSD releases from earlier branches will continue to be supported in accordance with the policy that was in effect at the time they were released.
Nothing contradictory, 10.3 follows the 'old' schedule and will have 2 years 'extended' support.
No 9.4-RELEASE
I'm guessing because it's not "officially" marked as the last of the 10.x branch. I do expect it to be the last one though. One of the reasons for the new support schedule was because they didn't want to have to support a plethora of versions. As 12.0 is expected to be released somewhere at the end of this year I don't think there will be room for a 10.5 release.I'm struggling to understand why 10.4 which is under the previous release strategy and announced as the last release for the 10 series is not an extended release.