On Jul 28, 2017 6:37 PM, "Nick Kew" <n...@apache.org> wrote:
On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 15:02 -0500, Ben Harper wrote: > Greetings, > > I have some questions regarding the life cycle of the different versions > of apr and apr-util that the 'Version Numbers' page did not fully > answer. Different projects handle life cycle differently. Some only > support the latest version, while others support several versions > concurrently. Is only 1.6 support or will 1.5 still get updates? The distinction is less important than with some projects. 1.5 is unlikely to get updates now unless hit by some serious security issue. But 1.6 is really just an incremental update on 1.5: the main reason for the version bump is how it deals with third-party dependencies: expat is unbundled, and more up-to-date versions of some other libraries are supported. Note also, beyond self contained enhancements (some of which might become httpd 2.4 prereqs for newer features), we have been pretty good about making new dependencies optional in the 1.x series. So adopting 1.6 (and at some point, 1.7) should be relatively painless.
