Thanks Jakob, that's exactly the information I needed! On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, Jakob Kummerow <[email protected]> wrote:
> We officially support what Chrome ships; currently that's 5.7 and 5.8 (and > gets bumped every ~six weeks, so every branch we cut has a support period > of ~12 weeks). You can see the currently supported set of branches on > https://build.chromium.org/p/client.v8.branches/console. > > We also support the node.js team with maintenance of V8 versions in > currently-supported Node releases. Backmerges for those purposes are > applied to Node's github repository directly, not to the branches in the > upstream V8 repository. (Note that Node's needs are somewhat different from > Chrome's, so the sets of patches that both projects choose to backmerge > might not always be identical.) > > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 2:23 PM, <[email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');>> wrote: > >> Hey group, >> >> Just wondering if there was any timelines for support of different >> versions/branches of V8 (v4.x v5.x etc) and how far back security patches >> are applied? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Tom >> >> -- >> -- >> v8-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >> http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "v8-dev" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','v8-dev%[email protected]');>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > v8-dev mailing list > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "v8-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > topic/v8-dev/B6d9W-RVH2I/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','v8-dev%[email protected]');>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
