Netgate Product Lifecycle
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Doesn't 2 years seem a little short for a product to be deemed EOL after EOS?
https://www.netgate.com/support/product-lifecycle
Seems like 6 to 8 years would be more reasonable.
I have about 8 5100s and 4 7100s that are not EOL, when I bought most of them in 2019.
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Most devices are still supported for far longer than that. The FW-7541 still runs 24.11 for example.
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@stephenw10 But Netgate stops testing those updates on those devices ?
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We still test on older hardware because we need to know if there's a specific issue that might apply before release. I tested 24.11 on APU and FW-7551 for example. However after EoL if there is some hardware specific regression we can't guarantee to fix it. Most of the time it's trivial to fix so we do. For example at some point the 3100 will no longer be supported because the effort required to get it to build as the only armv7 platform we have will be too great. It's no longer a tier1 architecture in FreeBSD so there are often things that break there.
