On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 02:11:12PM +0100, Howard Chu wrote: > Planning to post this to -announce soon, any comments? > > > Just a reminder to everyone: the Project has a long-standing policy of > doing active development on only one release version at a time. To > allow time for migrations we provide some overlap from one release > version to the next. E.g., while 2.5 is active we will still provide > critical bugfixes for 2.4. Since 2.4 has been around for something > like 14 years now people may have forgotten this policy. > > This is a heads up that with 2.6 due for release in September, all > updates to 2.4 will cease at that time. Likewise, when 2.7 is released > next year all updates to 2.5 will cease. > > Also for clarity: We consider "Critical" bugs to include security > flaws resulting in unauthorized data disclosure, or unauthorized > remote code execution. We do not consider assert() failures or crashes > resulting only in Denial of Service as security flaws.
Sounds good and to the point. Thanks, -- Ondřej Kuzník Senior Software Engineer Symas Corporation http://www.symas.com Packaged, certified, and supported LDAP solutions powered by OpenLDAP
