Fine tune EOL policy

diff --git a/pdns/recursordist/docs/appendices/EOL.rst b/pdns/recursordist/docs/appendices/EOL.rst
index e826a14f25340ce5535d205192e0345f30d8e686..8a3e70cef92dace699d8e2c42bfe701145b1a39f 100644 (file)
--- a/pdns/recursordist/docs/appendices/EOL.rst
+++ b/pdns/recursordist/docs/appendices/EOL.rst
@@ -3,29 +3,29 @@
 End of life statements
 ======================
 
-We aim to have a release every six months.
-The latest release receives correctness, stability and security updates.
-The two releases before that get critical updates only.
+We aim to have a major release every six months.
+The latest release receives correctness, stability and security updates by releasing minor releases.
+We support older releases with critical updates for one year after the next following major release.
 
 Older releases are marked end of life and receive no updates at all.
 Pre-releases do not receive immediate security updates.
 
 The currently supported release train of the PowerDNS Recursor is 4.9.
 
-PowerDNS Recursor 4.8 will only receive critical updates and will be
-end of life after PowerDNS Recursor 4.11 or 5.1 is released.
+PowerDNS Recursor 4.8 will only receive critical updates and will be End of Life one year after PowerDNS Recursor 4.9 was released.
 
-PowerDNS Recursor 4.7 will only receive critical updates and will be
-end of life after PowerDNS Recursor 4.10 or 5.0 is released.
+PowerDNS Recursor 4.7 will only receive critical updates and will be End of Life one year after PowerDNS Recursor 4.8 was released.
 
 PowerDNS Recursor 4.0 through 4.6, 3.x, and 2.x are End of Life.
 
 Note: Users with a commercial agreement with PowerDNS.COM BV or Open-Xchange
 can receive extended support for releases which are End Of Life. If you are
 such a user, these EOL statements do not apply to you.
-Please refer to the commercial support `commitment
+Please refer to the support `commitment
 <https://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=PowerDNS:Version_Support_Commitment>`_
 for details.
+Note that for the Open Source support channels we only support the latest minor release of a release train.
+That means that we ask you to reproduce potential issues on the latest minor release first.
 
 .. list-table:: PowerDNS Recursor Release Life Cycle
    :header-rows: 1
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ for details.
    * - 4.8
      - December 12 2022
      - June 30 2023
-     - ~ June 2024
+     - June 30 2024
    * - 4.7
      - May 30 2022
      - December 12 2022
-     - ~ December 2023
+     - December 12 2023
    * - 4.6
      - December 17 2021
      - May 30 2022