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[security-announce] openSUSE 11.4 has reached end of Evergreen support

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Hi,

 

as you probably know our initial commitment to support 11.4 within

Evergreen was until July 2014.

http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Evergreen

 

While I was hoping that we can keep 11.4 alive for some time longer this

is currently not possible from what I would call the "core team" which

is Stefan and myself. We are too busy nowadays to be able to scan and

patch every issue we get aware of.

 

Thanks to you all who contributed to the success of Evergreen/11.4!

 

The important message is:

 

openSUSE 11.4 Evergreen is not actively maintained anymore!

 

So if you can, we recommend to switch to openSUSE 13.1 as soon as

possible which is still planned to be an Evergreen release.

 

 

Some more details below:

The repository already got and will most likely get more updates from

package maintainers who care about 11.4 and/or their packages though.

You noticed that with recent releases of patches for the bash and NSS

issues already, BUT this is _no_ guarantee that every security issue

will be fixed.

We will accept contributions from anyone though and I will try to take

care about "my" packages.

 

Some numbers from 11.4 Evergreen (as far as I was able to get them easily):

 

Evergreen lifetime: 21 months

11.4 overall lifetime (incl. Evergreen): 41 months / 3 years 5 months

 

Evergreen lifetime numbers (w/o official maintenance period):

Released update source packages: 804

Unique touched source packages: 177

rough number of patches (based on incident counter): 320

 

Let me also quote Marcus' numbers from official maintenance lifetime:

 

Total updates: 723

Security: 416

Recommended: 306

Optional: 1

 

 

 

Thanks,

Wolfgang

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