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We aim to have a release every six months.
-The latest and previous release receive correctness, stability and security updates.
-The release before that gets critical security updates only.
+The latest release receives correctness, stability and security updates.
+The two releases before that get critical updates only.
+
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 4.4.
-PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 will only receive correctness, stability and
-security updates and will be receiving critical security updates only
-after PowerDNS Recursor 4.5 is released. It wil be end of life after
-PowerDNS Recursor 4.6 is released.
+PowerDNS Recursor 4.3 will only receive crtical updates and will be
+end of life after PowerDNS Recursor 4.6 is released.
-PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 will only receive critical security updates. It
+PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 will only receive critical updates. It
wil be end of life after PowerDNS Recursor 4.5 is released.
PowerDNS Recursor 4.1, 4.0, 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
+<https://oxpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=PowerDNS:Version_Support_Commitment>`_
+for details.
.. list-table:: PowerDNS Recursor Release Life Cycle
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* - Version
- Release date
- - Security-Only updates
+ - Critical-Only updates
- End of Life
* - 4.4
- October 19 2020
- - ~ October 2021
+ - ~ April 2021
- EOL ~ April 2022
* - 4.3
- March 3 2020
- - ~ April 2021
+ - October 19 2020
- EOL ~ October 2021
* - 4.2
- July 16 2019
- EOL
- EOL
+Note we did not have a very regular release schedule in the past,
+so the dates for older releases do not follow the pattern described above.
+