Andres Freund wrote: > But more seriously: Given the upstream support policies from > https://www.openssl.org/policies/releasestrat.html : > " > Support for version 0.9.8 will cease on 2015-12-31. No further releases of > 0.9.8 will be made after that date. Security fixes only will be applied to > 0.9.8 until then. > Support for version 1.0.0 will cease on 2015-12-31. No further releases of > 1.0.0 will be made after that date. Security fixes only will be applied to > 1.0.0 until then. > > We may designate a release as a Long Term Support (LTS) release. LTS > releases will be supported for at least five years and we will specify > one at least every four years. Non-LTS releases will be supported for at > least two years. > " > and the amount of security fixes regularly required for openssl, I don't > think we'd do anybody a favor by trying to continue supporting older > versions for a long while. > > Note that openssl's security releases are denoted by a letter after the > numeric version, not by the last digit. 0.9.7 was released 30 Dec 2002.
Yeah. Last of the 0.9.7 line (0.9.7m) was in 2007: commit 10626fac1569ea37839c37b105681cd08dbe6658 Author: cvs2svn <cvs2svn> AuthorDate: Fri Feb 23 12:49:10 2007 +0000 CommitDate: Fri Feb 23 12:49:10 2007 +0000 This commit was manufactured by cvs2svn to create tag 'OpenSSL_0_9_7m'. Current 0.9.8 is 0.9.8zg, in June this year: commit 0823ddc56e9aaa1de6c4f57bb45457d5eeca404d Author: Matt Caswell <m...@openssl.org> AuthorDate: Thu Jun 11 15:20:22 2015 +0100 CommitDate: Thu Jun 11 15:20:22 2015 +0100 Prepare for 0.9.8zg release Reviewed-by: Stephen Henson <st...@openssl.org> -- Álvaro Herrera http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers