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

[Tareq Alrashid]

Thank you, Greg.

On May 26, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Greg Hudson wrote:

> 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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