After a great deal of discussion in the community, the project's core team have written a policy outlining the support lifecycle for major PostgreSQL releases, which can be found on the wiki with other project policies at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Policies. We hope this document will help our users plan their deployments more effectively. -------- The PostgreSQL project aims to fully support a major release for five years. After a release falls out of full support, we may (at our committer's discretion) continue to apply further critical fixes to the source code, on a best-effort basis. No formal releases or binary packages will be produced by the project, but the updated source code will be available from our source code control system. This policy will be followed on a best-effort basis. In extreme cases it may not be possible to support a release for the planned lifetime; for example if a serious bug is found that cannot be resolved in a given major version without significant risk to the stability of the code or loss of application compatibility. In such cases, early retirement of a major version may be required. End Of Life (EOL) dates: Version EOL Date PostgreSQL 7.4 July 2010 (extended) PostgreSQL 8.0 July 2010 (extended) PostgreSQL 8.1 November 2010 PostgreSQL 8.2 December 2011 PostgreSQL 8.3 February 2013 PostgreSQL 8.4 July 2014 -------- -- Dave Page PostgreSQL Core Team -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
