Re: [mosquitto-dev] Version 1.6 released

[Greg Troxel <gdt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I have considered whether to carry on support for the previous
> versions since the 1.4 release. The plan currently in place is to keep
> providing service releases for the current minor release, until the
> next minor release. In addition, security patches are provided for
> versions that are currently packaged by third parties, such as 1.4.x
> on Ubuntu. Providing ongoing support and new releases for e.g. 1.5.x
> when 1.6.x and the next minor/major version are both being worked on
> is something I would like to offer, but in practice this would have to
> be a paid for support offering, or come from work provided by someone
> such as yourself. If either of those are something you'd like to
> pursue, let's have a chat about it.

If there are point releases with security fixes only, that sounds great
to me.  I certainly would not expect anything other than fixes for
security issues, crasher bugs, and perhaps serious build problems.
Personally, I have no reason to run anything but the latest.

I am not sure what Tatsuzo means by 'is not stable'.  As I understand
it, 1.6.0 is the latest release and is believed to be the best version
to run.  I did not see any declaration of lack of stability as I would
expect with 1.5.80 or 1.6.0alpha1 etc.