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.