On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 5:13 PM Mihir Chhaya <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Could you help me understand this a bit more? > > In 'Our Plan' section, you have mentioned cadence of one major release > every quarter with support for that major release until next major release. > > Does this mean a feature released in first quarter will be supported only > until the next quarter? Or the features released in all four quarters will > be supported until next LTS release the following year? > A feature introduced in a quarterly release is not supported for only three months. The support period applies to the release line, not to individual features. New features are developed on main and will normally remain part of subsequent releases, so a feature introduced in Wicket 11 would also be present in 12, 13, and eventually the next LTS release, Wicket 14. What changes is which release lines receive fixes. We will develop on main and on the current LTS branch. The LTS branch will receive security fixes and applicable bug fixes until the next LTS release. For the quarterly non-LTS releases, only the latest release will receive fixes. So when Wicket 12 is released, we will no longer release fixes for Wicket 11. When Wicket 13 is released, the same applies to Wicket 12. Bug fixes and security fixes on main will normally be included in the next quarterly release. If an issue is serious enough that it cannot wait, we may release a patch release for the current non-LTS version, for example 13.0.1. So at any point we expect to maintain at most two release lines: the current LTS and the current quarterly release. Martijn
