pdns/recursordist/docs/appendices/EOL.rst

   1 .. _eol:
   2
   3 End of life statements
   4 ======================
   5
   6 We aim to have a major release every six months.
   7 The latest major release train receives correctness, stability and security updates by the way of minor releases.
   8 We support older releases with critical updates for one year after the following major release.
   9
  10 Older releases are marked end of life and receive no updates at all.
  11 Pre-releases do not receive immediate security updates.
  12
  13 The currently supported release train of the PowerDNS Recursor is 5.0.
  14
  15 PowerDNS Recursor 4.9 will only receive critical updates and will be End of Life one year after PowerDNS Recursor 5.0 was released.
  16
  17 PowerDNS Recursor 4.8 will only receive critical updates and will be End of Life one year after PowerDNS Recursor 4.9 was released.
  18
  19 PowerDNS Recursor 4.0 through 4.7, 3.x, and 2.x are End of Life.
  20
  21 Note: Users with a commercial agreement with PowerDNS.COM BV or Open-Xchange
  22 can receive extended support for releases which are End Of Life. If you are
  23 such a user, these EOL statements do not apply to you.
  24 Please refer to the support `commitment
  25 <https://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=PowerDNS:Version_Support_Commitment>`_
  26 for details.
  27 Note that for the Open Source support channels we only support the latest minor release of a release train.
  28 That means that we ask you to reproduce potential issues on the latest minor release first.
  29
  30 .. list-table:: PowerDNS Recursor Release Life Cycle
  31    :header-rows: 1
  32
  33    * - Version
  34      - Release date
  35      - Critical-Only updates
  36      - End of Life
  37    * - 5.0
  38      - January 10 2024
  39      - ~ July 2024
  40      - ~ July 2025
  41    * - 4.9
  42      - June 30 2023
  43      - January 10 2024
  44      - January 10 2025
  45    * - 4.8
  46      - December 12 2022
  47      - June 30 2023
  48      - June 30 2024
  49    * - 4.7
  50      - May 30 2022
  51      - December 12 2022
  52      - EOL January 10 2024
  53    * - 4.6
  54      - December 17 2021
  55      - May 30 2022
  56      - EOL June 30 2023
  57    * - 4.5
  58      - May 11 2021
  59      - December 17 2021
  60      - EOL December 12 2022
  61    * - 4.4
  62      - October 19 2020
  63      - May 11 2021
  64      - EOL May 30 2022
  65    * - 4.3
  66      - March 3 2020
  67      - October 19 2020
  68      - EOL December 17 2021
  69    * - 4.2
  70      - July 16 2019
  71      - October 19 2020
  72      - EOL May 11 2021
  73    * - 4.1
  74      - December 4 2017
  75      - March 3 2020
  76      - EOL October 19 2020
  77    * - 4.0 and older
  78      - EOL
  79      - EOL
  80      - EOL
  81
  82 Note we did not have a very regular release schedule in the past,
  83 so the dates for older releases do not follow the pattern described above.