Change 34744 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2008/11/05 23:54:13
A note about future maintenance plans for 5.8.x.
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There are no known new bugs.
However, programs that rely on bugs that have been fixed will have problems.
-Also, many bug fixes present in 5.10.0 can't be backported to the 5.8.x
+Also, many bug fixes present in 5.10.0 can't be back-ported to the 5.8.x
branch, because they require changes that are binary incompatible, or because
the code changes are too large and hence too risky to incorporate.
+We have only limited volunteer labour, and the maintenance burden is getting
+increasingly complex. Hence this will be the last significant release of the
+5.8.x series. Any future releases of 5.8.x will likely only be to deal with
+security issues, and platform build failures. Hence you should look to
+migrating to 5.10.x, if you have not started already. Alternatively, if
business
+requirements constrain you to continue to use 5.8.x, you may wish to consider
+commercial support from firms such as ActiveState.
+
=head1 Platform Specific Notes
=head2 Win32
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