I agree with Gary.

Jeff

> On Sep 24, 2026, at 2:40 AM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I think we should start by dropping the oldest from maintenance ASAP.
> People will likely only update once CVEs start accumating on that
> non-manintened release. I'd be OK only supporting the current release.
> 
> Gary
> 
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2026, 04:18 Emmanuel Lécharny <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi!
>> 
>> We currently have 3 active branches:
>> - 2.0.X started in 2008
>> - 2.1.X started in 2019
>> - 2.2.X started in 2022
>> 
>> It costs a lot to maintain those three branches, especially when it
>> comes to backport issues. I have spent a hell of time managing CVE's in
>> late spring, with some backport to those old branches.
>> 
>> I'm not sure we want to still maintain them.
>> 
>> OTOH, the downloads stats are quite surprising:
>> 
>> 2.2.X represent 57% of the monthly downloads, 2.1.X 9,82% and 2.0.X 30%
>> (and FTR 1.1.X represents 7%(!!) of all the downloads. Quite good for a
>> 18 years old defunct version...)
>> 
>> So what do you think? Should we focus on 2.2.X, and tell the world we
>> will stop maintaining the two other branches? (we can also offer a grace
>> period...)
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
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