Hi,

I'm just wondering if the consensus was reached on this one and it is official?

ML

On 2026-09-24 08:16 UTC Emmanuel Lécharny 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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