No, FreeBSD 14.0 has not reached its EoL :)
Context
I recently starting upgrading my FreeBSD servers to 14.0-RELEASE (from 13.2-RELEASE).
I started with my simplest FreeBSD server, and this of course went well.
I was however surprised when running a freebsd-upgrade fetch after the
upgrade, when I got the
following message:
No updates needed to update system to 14.0-RELEASE-p0.
WARNING: FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.
It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer release within
the next 2 months.
The answer
That was not a big deal, as I assumed someone forgot to update a file somewhere, but Peter replied to my amused tweet: this is a known "issue", and has already been explained by Colin Percival in a blog post:
"FreeBSD Update reports 14.0-RELEASE approaching its EoL
The FreeBSD Update metadata includes the release End-of-Life date; but the wrong value got inserted when the FreeBSD Update bits were put together for FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE. Just ignore the warning; it will go away with the value being corrected along with the first Security Advisory or Errata Notice."
So TL;DR: nothing to do, this will go away eventually :)
Tags: FreeBSD