In the maintenance policy page (
> https://apereo.github.io/cas/developer/Maintenance-Policy.html), it is
> writtent that the EOL for CAS Server 6.1.0 is the June 1st, 2020.
> It is the last version though,
>
It's not the last version. It's the last version for which there is an EOL.
As soon as folks start working on a new version and we have a tentative
release date for it, that would also be listed on the page. These things
are planned in small and incremental ways, given the size of the developer
community.
> why does it have an EOL date? can it be wrong and postponed?
>
It's not wrong.
It may be postponed pending time, money, availability, interest, frequency
of contributions, severity of patches, volunteer effort and enthusiasm,
etc. For instance the maintenance cycle for the 5.3.x release line was
extended quite a few times because there were folks who needed the patch
release or there were folks who financially sponsored the effort to make it
happen.
> And why the 5.3.X version has a better EOL date than the 6.1.0 version?
>
The policy was voted on and changed around the time of CAS 6's initial
development kickoff to more or less align itself with the Java release
cadence (though this was not the only reason for the change and
realistically, the least important). Older versions are not affected by the
new policy change and will continue to be maintained under the old process
within the specified dates.
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