Hi Tim, On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:01:32PM +0200, Tim Düsterhus wrote: > Willy, > > Am 11.06.20 um 11:06 schrieb Willy Tarreau: > > So we're getting pretty good for a release very soon. I think that this > > might be the last development release so it can be considered almost as a > > release candidate, and that if everything goes well, we could release by the > > end of next week, which is close to initial estimates. > > > > I would assume that the release of 2.2 is also the date where 1.9 goes > from EoL to unmaintained?
Yes in theory but there's never any emergency for dropping old releases, it's mostly a matter of how much it costs to keep them alive. As you know in general I'm not an "old version shooter" :-) > You might or might not want to plan a final 1.9 release then as well. I think so as well, I've seen that Christopher has backported a number of patches there. Many of them are of medium severity, it can be worth issuing another one. I'd say that beyond that point there's no promise of any new version, and I'd mark it unmaintained. But if it happens that backporting some fixes to 1.8 require adaptations to cross the 2.0->1.9 barrier, this might end up with getting fixes for free in 1.9 and at some point could possibly result in another one. But it should be considered dead anyway. This makes me think that we should add a line to 1.9.16 saying "No more fixes for 1.9.x past this version, upgrade to 2.0" in "haproxy -v". Cheers, Willy
