From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix, from userid 118) id 01C04E0084D; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:21:06 -0800 (PST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on yocto-www.yoctoproject.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-HAM-Report: * -1.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -2.3 RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED RBL: Sender listed at http://www.dnswl.org/, * medium trust * [147.11.146.13 listed in list.dnswl.org] Received: from mail1.windriver.com (mail1.windriver.com [147.11.146.13]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C03D9E002A6 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:20:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail1.windriver.com (8.14.9/8.14.5) with ESMTP id sBCKKsBT008657 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:20:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from Marks-MacBook-Pro.local (172.25.36.230) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.174.1; Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:20:54 -0800 Message-ID: <548B4E25.4060804@windriver.com> Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:20:53 -0600 From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: References: <30C2D590D16A5C46ADFE6521910377984117EA89@AZ-US1EXMB03.global.avaya.com> In-Reply-To: <30C2D590D16A5C46ADFE6521910377984117EA89@AZ-US1EXMB03.global.avaya.com> Subject: Re: How long are stable branches maintained? X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto Project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 20:21:06 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 12/12/14, 7:48 AM, Vuille, Martin (Martin) wrote: > I have read the information at > https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/Stable_branch_maintenance > > I would like to know how long stable branches are maintained. > > If we are using daisy (1.6), how long can we count on point releases with > > security patches before we should plan to upgrade to a newer release? Rough rule of thumb is the Yocto Project will support two releases at the same time, and releases occur roughly every 6 months. So about 1 year from the time of release. For instance: Release - Version - EOL Fall 2014 - YP 1.7 - Spring 2014 - YP 1.6 - Fall 2013 - YP 1.5 - (Fall 2014) Spring 2013 - YP 1.4 - Spring 2014 Fall 2012 - YP 1.3 - Fall 2013 Spring 2012 - YP 1.2 - Spring 2013 Fall 2011 - YP 1.1 - Fall 2012 Spring 2011 - YP 1.0 - Spring 2012 Fall 2010 - YP 0.9 - Fall 2011 As I said, this is a rule of thumb. We recently released some updates to 1.5 to help close out the work and deal with some security defects. But I wouldn't expect any further releases. The maintainer of the branch may choose to include fixes submitted by community members, but is not under any obligation to. If you are looking for support longer then the '2 release cycle', I strongly suggest that you look at a commercial OSV, or another commercial resource as they will be better at helping you with longer term issues. --Mark > MV > > >