Hi, The Apache OFBiz Project Team would like to inform you that OFBiz 18.12.19 is the last release of the 18.12 branch, which has reached its end of life and won't be longer officially supported.
https://ofbiz.apache.org/release-notes-18.12.19.html This announcement takes place on 2025-05-08 and starting from today we will only support Apache OFBiz 18.12.19 in case of important security vulnerabilities. Questions and Answers: With the announcement of OFBiz 18.12.19 EOL, what happens to OFBiz 18.12.19 resources? All resources will stay where they are. The documentation will still be accessible from the Apache OFBiz homepage[1], as well as the downloads for last released OFBiz versions[2]. All of the OFBiz 18.12.19 source code can be found in the Apache OFBiz Git repository under branch release18.12, now and in future. This concerns the framework[3] and the plugins[4]. [1] https://ofbiz.apache.org/ [2] https://downloads.apache.org/ofbiz [3] https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework [4] https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-plugins Is there an immediate need to upgrade from OFBiz 18.12.19 in my projects? If you are using a release between 18.12.01 and 18.12.19 you should immediately upgrade to 18.12.19, because there are several vulnerabilities present in all OFBiz releases before 18.12.19. As today, there aren't known vulnerabilities affecting OFBiz 18.12.19; however, considering that the 18.12.19 is the last release in this branch, you should plan to migrate to the 18.12.19 as soon as possible. My friends / colleagues and I would like to see OFBiz 18.12.19 being continuously maintained. What can we do? You may fork the existing source and support it on your own. Note that Apache OFBiz users can still run their projects on the latest Apache OFBiz release 18.12.19. They are encouraged to plan an upgrade to the 24.09.01 release though. The stable branch is available openly for all users to check compatibility with their projects and to develop a migration path for their individual needs. Our stable branches only receive security updates and bugfixes so there are no breaking changes to be expected once the branch will be released. For more information, please refer to the following links: https://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html https://ofbiz.apache.org/release-notes-18.12.19.html https://ofbiz.apache.org/security.html Kind regards - Jacques on behalf of the Apache OFBiz Team
