Thx Dormando! I ll then use this rule for the time being:
- 1.4 is dead - 1.5 is still supported (in the sense that a major security issue could be fixed) - 1.6 is the preferred version Cheers Nico On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 9:51 AM dormando <dorma...@rydia.net> wrote: > Hey, > > In extreme cases we would provide patches, and there's nothing stopping me > from releasing a new 1.5 version. Most distro's just patch what versions > they maintain, which is a wide swath of them. > > The only difference between later 1.4 and early 1.5 versions were the > defaults enabled, so releasing more 1.4's had no point. > > I think the one CVE that's happened since 1.6 came out only affected 1.6+. > 1.6 is also not a huge jump. > > In short, nobody's asked for one, so I havent't done one, I guess. The > project moves pretty slowly and conservatively so I don't personally view > the dot versions to be something people should hold onto dearly. It just > makes things harder when something goes go wrong since they have less > observability and miss out on bug fixes. > > On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, Nicolas Motte wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > I d like to know what is the end of life policy for major memcached > versions. > > > > At the moment we re using 1.4 and 1.5. Looking at the release notes, it > feels like only the latest major version (1.6) has new releases, which > makes me > > think in case of a security issue found on a previous major version, it > would not be fixed and we would have to migrate to 1.6. > > > > It would mean the policy is simple (but a bit drastic) : "every time > a new major version is released, the previous one is dead." > > > > Is my understanding correct? > > > > Cheers > > Nico > > > > -- > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "memcached" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to memcached+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/memcached/CAB7O_Y_BN%2BewH-z%3DqCe2LGMU_Qj7nuZ9fHp9K-jWsDrbUhfTLQ%40mail.gmail.com > . > > > > > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "memcached" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to memcached+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/memcached/alpine.DEB.2.21.2007080043570.18887%40dskull > . > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "memcached" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to memcached+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/memcached/CAB7O_Y-XUJhyL-gVmCGHfRDTqqHvSvpD6A4xzPjmA_B%2BF6B-6Q%40mail.gmail.com.
