Request 4 info: 1.7.x, 1.8.x, 1.9.x versions of code?

Greg Hudson ghudson at MIT.EDU
Thu May 26 11:49:21 EDT 2011


On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 11:41 -0400, Tareq Alrashid wrote:
> I would like to have someone from the MIT Kerberos team or in the
> know, please describe each version or the purpose behind each.  Why
> are the older versions being kept and updated, instead of just the
> newest version?  I think I know the answer, but, I wondered if a
> description or the purpose of each version exists somewhere.

As a general rule, we support second-component versions for two years
after the initial release.  The reason is that it's less disruptive for
an organization or operating system to update to a patch release with
only bugfixes than to update to a release with many feature changes in
it.

There is no specific purpose behind each release--that is, we aren't
still supporting 1.7 because we think there's any specific reason new
deployments or OS versions should choose it over 1.9.





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