On 2/13/26 1:05 PM, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 6:59 PM Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12/02/2026 22:52, Christopher Schultz wrote:
All,
I have a proposed End of Support announcement.
(I find that turn of phrase odd; I always read EOL although maybe that
term is being phased out?)
Comments welcome.
Having read the announcement, I'm now not sure of the right way to
handle this.
We did have an announcement for 1.1.x but didn't for 1.2.x although the
circumstances look to be similar. That is probably on me.
We're allowed to help and make sure everything is done properly, so I
would say this is on us ;)
I think I'd lean more towards approach of:
- the last 1.2.x release was more than 2 years ago
- we should have announced EoS for 1.2.x when 1.3.x was released (more
than a year ago)
- there are no plans for any further 1.2.x releases
- 1.2.x is effectively EoS now
Not sure I'd state this on the users list but if someone can come up
with a *really* good argument why they can't just upgrade to 1.3.x (and
because we depend on a very old, unsupported version of OpenSSL is NOT a
good argument) then I'd consider a 1.2.x release. Thinking about it, it
would likely end up being so similar to 1.3.x that they might as well
just use 1.3.x. Which I guess means I'd consider and then say no so...
Which brings me back to some variation of stating "1.2.x is already EoS
- sorry for no advance notice but no releases for 2+ years should have
been a hint".
+1
Usually when we have a new minor version, the support for the previous
one ends, but usually we do make a real announcement.
So I'm kind of hearing both of these:
a. 1.2.x is dead, Jim
b. We should support 1.2.x because we technically forgot to announce EOS
This is why I settled on the "EoS is same as 1.3.x" because (1) we
didn't announce and (1) it is, in fact, dead. But just in case someone
was really expecting support, we will grudgingly do it, but only after
an impassioned recommendation to migrate to 1.3.x, and then to 2.0.x
immediately thereafter. As a concession to us, I'm not extending support
any farther ... ? :)
I do feel bad announcing "sorry, there is no notice on this one". At
least with 1.3.x, they have a countdown of a year-ish.
-chris
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