On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 11:41 -0400, Tareq Alrashid wrote: > I would like to have someone from the MIT Kerberos team or in the > know, please describe each version or the purpose behind each. Why > are the older versions being kept and updated, instead of just the > newest version? I think I know the answer, but, I wondered if a > description or the purpose of each version exists somewhere.
As a general rule, we support second-component versions for two years after the initial release. The reason is that it's less disruptive for an organization or operating system to update to a patch release with only bugfixes than to update to a release with many feature changes in it. There is no specific purpose behind each release--that is, we aren't still supporting 1.7 because we think there's any specific reason new deployments or OS versions should choose it over 1.9. ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
