> > On Aug 1, 2022, at 12:33 PM, Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> wrote: > Hmpf, this is deeply unfortunate. I was working under the incorrect > belief that the 4.0.x series was now the LTS branch. A number of > things encouraged this interpretation, including that the 4.0.x and > 4.1.x were the release streams that were receiving security and > targeted bugfix releases, and this was happening as a relatively > consistent pair. (As in, not the 3.x stream.)
To clarify: the LTS is always the third and final (X.2) release of a major version. So 3.2 is the current LTS; the next LTS will be 4.2, then 5.2, etc. At this stage in the cycle: * 4.1 receives full support for bugs of most levels of severity. * 4.0 receives only fixes for security and data-loss bugs, and will become unsupported once 4.2 is released, expected April 2023. * 3.2 LTS receives only fixes for security and data-loss bugs, and will become unsupported in April 2024, approximately 30 months after its initial release.
