On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Troy Dawson wrote:
Tim Edwards wrote:
On 27/01/10 17:23, Troy Dawson wrote:
Hello,
The Scientific Linux development team has put out a roadmap for the
future of Scientific Linux 4.
http://www.scientificlinux.org/distributions/roadmap
Scientific Linux 4 is going to follow the same type of roadmap that we
followed for Scientific Linux 3.
SL 4.9 will be a "legacy" release. It will be supported until
the time that RedHat no longer supports RHEL 4, which is February 2012.
This release will only get minimal support, security updates only. Red
Hat calles this "Production 3 Life Cycle Phase" which is
"During Production 3, at a minimum, qualified security errata of
important or critical impact and selected mission critical bug fixes
may be released independent of minor releases.
No new functionality, new hardware enablement or updated installation
images are planned for release in Production 3 life cycle phase.
There are no minor releases planned during this phase."
https://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/
SL 4.0-4.8 will be obsoleted. Currently that is set to October 10,
2010. That date is flexible. We want to give users at least 6 months
to update to SL 4.9. So if SL 4.9 takes too long to be released, we
will move the October date back.
Summary:
SL 4.0-4.8 : Obsolete in October 2010
SL 4.9 : Minimal support (security only) until February 2012
Thank You
Scientific Linux Development Team
Just wondering what you mean by SL 4.0-4.8 being 'obsolete'? Is it the
same as saying that SL4.0-4.7 are currently 'obsolete'?
Tim Edwards
I guess I wasn't clear on that part. I think I was assuming that people
were around when we obsoleted SL 301-308, which many people aren't.
They will no longer get any security and/or bug fix updates.
We will no longer test errata against these releases.
We will move them into the "obsoletes" area. This way if people still
want to use them they still can, but your average or beginning SL user
won't be confused thinking they are still fully supported. And mirrors
will not feel obligated to have to mirror them.
Troy
The idea is that you should upgrade to SL 4.9 which will get security
errata updates.
-connie sieh
