Dates
- As of: 2015-04
- Revisit on: 2015-10
Policy
The Fedora project understands the importance of producing and maintaining secure, bug-free software. This policy defines the project's commitment in supporting previously released versions of the Fedora Repository software.
Presently, the codebase is evolving and settling, and the Fedora community has not yet fully transitioned to relying on any given 4.x release for production installations. Once this transition takes place, the Fedora project will institute a policy of continued support for previous major releases. Such a policy is not yet in effect, but this will be revisited on the date mentioned above.
The Fedora Project does not currently have a policy of back-porting bug-fixes or security patches to previous 4.x releases.
Note: Unlike typical "semantic versioning", Fedora defines the following meaning to each of the three positions of a version number in a release such as: Fedora-4.1.2
4 (in '4'.1.2) - product version (i.e. Fedora4, this number will not change unless there is a significant architectural shift in the Fedora application, as we saw from Fedora3 to 4).
1 (in 4.'1'.2) - major version (this number increments every time there is either a non-backwards compatible API change or an equally significant project milestone)
2 (in 4.1.'2') - combined minor version and bug-fix version (this number is incremented in the course of regular, frequent, maintenance releases)
