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I think the idea of having a long term support release for 5 years was great [1].

FreeBSD 11 has been around for some years now, getting an update to which 11.3-RELEASE can be upgraded with minimal hassle is a major plus for FreeBSD.

([1] edit: referring to https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2015-Fe...)

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We've effectively had 5 year support cycles since FreeBSD 6 -- we just never advertised it as such.

Quite right, thanks for correcting me. But I've been using FreeBSD since ~2001 and hadn't quite noticed, so the announcement did really help out :)

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