Thank you, Greg. On May 26, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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
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