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On Wed, 04 Oct 2017, lv via Jenkins Users wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I'm one of the people maintaining the public Jenkins installation of the 
> Apache Impala (Incubating) project, and since it is facing the public 
> internet we're particularly interested in keeping our installation secure. 
> We are currently running LTS 2.46.3 and I'm trying to figure out whether 
> such old LTS releases are still supported, and for how long.
> 
> I looked at the page describing the LTS Release Line and from there it is 
> not clear to me whether only the latest release line (currently 2.73.X) 
> will receive security fixes, or whether older lines receive those, too. If 
> they do, what is the latest LTS line that will receive security update 
> and/or that is considered when looking at the impact of newly found 
> security issues?


Older LTS releases are in no way supported by the Jenkins project and do not
receive backports of any kind.

I strongly recommend to always follow the latest LTS versions. ci.jenkins.io
(which I maintain) runs 2.73.1 for example, and when we roll new releases, I
make sure to upgrade :)



- R. Tyler Croy

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