[33430] in Kerberos
Re: Request 4 info: 1.7.x, 1.8.x, 1.9.x versions of code?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu May 26 11:49:31 2011
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Tareq Alrashid <tma@case.edu>
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Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 11:49:21 -0400
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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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