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Maintenance Policy

This document describes the official CAS policy as it regards maintenance and management of released CAS server versions.

In particular, the following questions are addressed:

  • How long should a CAS release be maintained?
  • What is the appropriate scope for release maintenance once a release is retired?

Policy

  • CAS adopters MAY EXPECT a CAS release to be maintained for one calendar year, starting from the original release date.
  • Maintenance during this year includes bug fixes, security patches and general upkeep of the release.
  • Once the year is passed, maintenance of the release is STRICTLY limited to security patches and fixing vulnerabilities for another calendar year.
  • The lifespan of a release MAY be extended beyond a single year, to be decided by the CAS PMC and the community at large when and where reasonable.

By “CAS Release”, we mean anything that is a feature release and above. (i.e. 4.1.x, 4.2.x, 5.0.x, 5.1.x, etc).

EOL Schedule

The following CAS releases will transition into a security-patch mode (SPM) only and will be EOLed at the indicated dates.

Release SPM Starting Date Full EOL
4.1.x January 31st, 2017 January 31st, 2018
4.2.x January 31st, 2017 January 31st, 2018
5.0.x November 30th, 2017 November 30th, 2018
5.1.x May 30th, 2018 May 30th, 2019

All past releases that are absent in the above table are considered EOLed.