On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/21/2016 09:29 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> This is a community SIG .. and xenproject.org does NOT release XSAs for >> 4.2. The goal of Xen4centOS was to use an upstream LTS kernel and >> update those as required to stay on an LTS. Also to do every second >> point release of xen (ie, 4.2, 4.4, 4.6). All so we are longer term >> than upstream, BUT we have supported code from upstream. >> >> So, the goal is to use supported code for the longest amount of time the >> upsreams support them. For xenproject.org .. they support the two >> newest releases. For kernel.org, they do a new kernel LTS about every 2 >> years. >> >> We don't have 5000 engineers to maintain community SIGs like they >> maintain the distro. We have to have supported code from upstream projects. >> >> > > So what does this mean .. > > xenproject.org supports 4.6 and 4.5 right now. (last 2 releases). This isn't exactly right. Recent releases have 18 months of "support" (meaning, bug fixes are backported), and then another 18 months of "security backports", which means only XSAs are backported [1], regardless of when or how many releases have been made. It just happens that most releases recently have ended up taking about 9 months, which means at any given time you have 2 in 'active support'; but that's mostly a coincidence. :-) So 4.4 won't be getting any more point releases, but it should continue to get XSAs through March 2017. (This table [2] has it ending in March 2016, but I'm pretty sure that's a mistake.) -George [1] http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Maintenance_Releases [2] http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Project_Release_Features _______________________________________________ CentOS-virt mailing list CentOS-virt@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-virt
