Glad it helped. I have drafted a new “Support" section on the web page with a similar explanation, please see staging site http://lucene.staging.apache.org/solr/community.html#support <http://lucene.staging.apache.org/solr/community.html#support> and give feedback :)
-- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > 11. jan. 2017 kl. 15.25 skrev Tussing, Leith <ltuss...@ist.ucf.edu>: > > Excellent, this is exactly what I needed to know, thank you. > > We will plan to upgrade to the latest 5.5.x now while we budget effort to > move to the latest 6.x soon. > > --Leith > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Høydahl [mailto:jan....@cominvent.com] > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 5:01 AM > To: general@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: Solr supported/EOL versions > > Hi, > > There is no web page listing EOL status. The general rule is that we work on > three versions at the same time. > There is the 6.x version which is the “stable” branch where we release new > features. > Then there is the 5.5 branch which will most likely receive CVE security > updates, but we cannot guarantee other bug fixes. > And finally we work on the next major release 7.x in master branch (never > released). > > So for you guys on 5.3.1 you have a back-compat upgrade path to released > 5.5.3, and should see a 5.5.4 if a really critical issue is found. > There is no EOL date decided for 5.x yet, but once we start talking about > releasing 7.x you should prepare to upgrade. > > Note: There may also be downstream companies out there offering LTS for older > Solr versions, with patches etc. > > -- > Jan Høydahl, search solution architect > Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com > >> 3. jan. 2017 kl. 16.39 skrev Tussing, Leith <ltuss...@ist.ucf.edu>: >> >> I've read through the documentation and the email archive and was unable to >> find (or missed) the information I was looking for. >> >> What are the officially supported versions of Solr for security updates? >> We're running 5.3.1 but there hadn't been any updates to 5.x in a couple >> months and I was trying to find the official support/EOL status info to >> present to management to show we're either still actively secure or if we >> needed to expend resources to upgrade from 5.x to 6.x versions. >> >> --Leith >> >
