How is the status of 4.8 branch

[Joel Sherrill]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 08/05/2009 09:16 AM, PowerMan wrote:
>   
>> 4.8.1 is released in 2008. It is a long time since then. When would 4.8.2 be
>> released?
>>     
>
> 4.7 is in "keep-alive maintenance mode".
>
> I.e. it would only see an update when a critical bug was found or a 
> sufficient amount of "non-critical" bugs fixes would have accumulated.
>
> So far, neither has happened.
>
> IMO, more likely than 4.8.x seeing an update it is being announced 
> "discontinued".
>   
The official policy of the RTEMS Project is comparable to Fedora. 
We support  the CVS head along with two previous release branches.
That means we could provide an updated 4.8.x any time before
4.10.0 is released if needed.

But it hasn't been needed.  There are no critical bugs that I am
aware of that need to be fixed.
> I strongly recommend not to use 4.8 anymore, but to upgrade to at least 4.9.
>
>   
Agreed. 
>> And what about 4.7.4?
>>     
> Though not officially pronounced "dead", rtems-4.7 is de-facto dead and 
> unsupported.
>   
This should have already been announced.   That
means 4.9 and 4.8 with 4.8 only getting critical
fixes.

Remember OAR offers legacy support for older RTEMS versions.
Many projects lock down their versions and will not do major
version updates.  So if you have fielded an older RTEMS version
and want bug fix releases for that release branch, this is for you.
There is a 4.6.7 legacy support version.

When possible though we recommend updating to the latest
release branch or the CVS head. 

> Ralf
>
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