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From: Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net>
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Subject: Handbook needs to be updated to reflect security support changes
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>Number:         29182
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Handbook needs to be updated to reflect security support changes
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jul 23 17:20:02 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sun Sep 2 15:26:06 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Sun Sep 02 15:26:45 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Tony Fleisher <takhus@takhus.mind.net>
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:

	
>Description:
	Section 20.2 "FreeBSD-CURRENT vs. FreeBSD-STABLE" of 
	The FreeBSD Handbook needs to be updated to reflect the
	changes announced by the Security Officer in the 11 May 2001
	annoucement "Changes to FreeBSD security support policy",
	specifically this paragraph is not true (and, in fact, 
	is contradicted by the annoucement): 
	
	(In section 20.2.2.2)
		Tracking FreeBSD-STABLE also gives you easy access to 
		security fixes for FreeBSD as they are released.  
		However, you do not need to track FreeBSD-STABLE to do this, 
		as every security advisory for FreeBSD explains how to 
		   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
		fix the problem for the releases it affects.
				^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
		
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
	I think that some combination of updating this section of the
	Handbook and perhaps adding a new section "Supported Releases" 
	(which is kept up to date) is needed to fix this inconsistancy.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: murray 
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 2 15:26:06 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
A footnote has been added that admits we can't support old versions of 
FreeBSD forever, and points the user to freebsd.org/security for 
detailed information about which branches/releases are supported. 
Thanks for the submission! 


http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29182 
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