dashorst opened a new pull request, #25:
URL: https://github.com/apache/wicket-site/pull/25
Follows up on the PMC announcement on announce@ and users@: from Wicket
11.0.0 onwards we move to time-based releases, a major release every three
months with every fourth one an LTS.
**News item** `2026/_posts/2026-09-11-release-cadence.md` — the
announcement, with the schedule 11 → 14, the reasons (slowdown, the CVE load
multiplied across four supported branches, LLM-scale cleanups versus semver),
and the stability promise. It also answers the follow-up question from users@
("is a feature released in one quarter supported for only three months?"): the
support window applies to the release line, not to individual features.
Features are developed on `main` and carry over into every following release;
what the window decides is which release lines receive fixes — the current LTS
and the current quarterly release, at most two at a time.
**Download page** `start/download.md` — a Release Policy section rather than
only a link to the news item, since that page is where people land when they
need to pick a version. The Supported Versions table above it still describes
today's situation; the new schedule only takes effect when 11.0.0 is released.
The status of 8.x and 9.x now reads "one final release, then end of life".
`content/` is regenerated (news item, download page, news-archive sidebars,
`atom.xml`, `feed.xml`, homepage, learn index) — the same shape as the commit
for 8.19.0/9.24.0/10.11.0.
Two things to check before merging:
- The announcement says 8.x and 9.x each get one more release, which is what
both texts say here. 8.19.0 and 9.24.0 shipped on 30 August — if those *were*
the final ones, the wording needs to change to past tense.
- "Wicket 14 supported until Wicket 18" is derived from "every fourth major
release is an LTS". The announcement does not state it literally.
Unrelated, but worth a separate PR: `jekyll build` fails on `asf-site` as it
stands. `_config.yml` has no `url:`, and jekyll-target-blank 2.0.2 calls
`URI.parse(@site_url)` on nil. I built with an override `url: ""`, which
reproduces the committed output byte for byte; setting it to
`https://wicket.apache.org` is *not* a drop-in fix, because then every link to
our own host stops being external and loses `target="_blank" rel="noopener
noreferrer"`. `content/css/style.css` also differs under a newer sass
(percentage `rgb()` notation); that churn is left out of this PR.
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