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+## End of Life on an old release series
Here are the steps that the maintainer should take when an old Tor release
series reaches End of Life. Note that they are _only_ for an entire series
that has reached its planned EOL: they do not apply to security-related
deprecations of individual versions.
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### 1. Preliminaries
1. A few months before End of Life:
Send the announcement to tor-announce, tor-talk, tor-relays, and the
packagers.
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### 2. On the day
1. Open tickets to remove the release from: