On 11/10/2017 18:01, LEE, BEN S. wrote: > Is there a weblink that tracks the software life-cycle for GCC? i.e. > End of Support, End of Life, etc. Thank you > > V/R > Ben B. Lee | CISSP | Security+ > Sustainment Team, Security Operations > Cyber Security Directorate (CSD) > Office of Information and Technology (OIT) > Enterprise Services (ES) > U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Hello Ben, It is interesting to see the government -- or rather *a* government; we live in a global world, after all -- expressing interest for free software[1] in a public forum. As Richard pointed out[2], free software is an obvious fit for governments, who should actively promote and sponsor FOSS. To address your specific question, it should be noted that GCC implements a schedule-based release process, with a new major release every year. https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html GCC 5, released in 2015-04 (as 5.1) GCC 6, released in 2016-04 (as 6.1) GCC 7, released in 2017-05 (as 7.1) GCC 8, to be released in 2018-04 (as 8.1) Releases within a major branch are bug-fix only. Thus 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, and all future 6.x are bug-fix releases on top of 6.1. Note, however, that some vendors offer much longer support contracts than upstream projects are able to provide, e.g. RHEL[3] or SLES[4] Regards. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software [2] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.en.html [3] https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata [4] https://www.suse.com/support/policy/
