Hi Everyone A quick update following on from the discussions last week about the 14.12 and 15.12 branches. The final result of the community discussions were as follows:
- There will be no more releases from 13.07 (so the current release that is out is the last one in that series) - We are not backporting any of the gradle changes into the 14.12. or 15.12 branches because it will cause instability - We are going to leave 14.12 and 15.12 as unreleased branches as they are now (and not make them into releases as to do that we would need to remove all the jar files and this would create instability). - The benefits for leaving 14.12 and 15.12 as unreleased branches are that developers and service providers will still have access to the complete codebase for 14.12 and 15.12 including the special purpose components to be able to support their client base. After a recent discussion on the dev mailing list, it was agreed that the 14.12 and 15.12 branches will be supported until July 2017 *So what does this mean?* It means that developers can checkout, use and install the OFBiz code from the branches 14.12 and 15.12, and that these branches will be supported until July 2017. This also means that we will backport bug fixes into both branches until July 2017. *When will the next OFBiz stable release be Available?* At this stage we are working on stabilising the trunk with Gradle, and hope to create a 16.x branch later in the year. Once this is done we will be able to give a tentative release date. I’ve also updated the website release information seciont with these details. http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html Thanks Sharan -- View this message in context: http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/Update-on-Support-for-14-12-and-15-12-branches-tp4688403.html Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
