MariaDB Enterprise and Enterprise Cluster ‐ Policies

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‐ Policies
1. Release Policy
Both MariaDB Enterprise & MariaDB Enterprise Cluster have a classic version numbering scheme and each component reflects a category of changes: ● Minor releases (10.0.12, ..., 10.1.23, …, 11.3.10): ○ For the server, primarily bug fixes and only small improvements, not real new features. Changes are done mainly for fixing bugs or security issues. ○ For surrounding services and potentially for other tools and components, some feature work can be done inside of a minor release. The details are explained in both the release note and our website in your My.portal section. ○ MariaDB Enterprise and Enterprise Cluster will consolidate several minor Community server releases into one, targeting to release every quarter on average. Exceptions can be made at any time for urgent fixes. ● Major releases (10.0, 10.1, …, 11.0, 11.1): ○ All changes will be backward compatible respecting the 5 years support window. ○ MariaDB retains the option to break backward compatibility on major releases when it is deemed necessary to improve the database. This will be announced well in advance to our partners. For every released version, the Changelog & Release Notes documents will be updated accordingly. There is no fixed release schedule for new releases. But each category of release has its own lifespan. Major versions of MariaDB Enterprise & Enterprise Cluster are supported for 5 years from the date of the first GA release. This is called the major version’s End Of Life (EOL) date. All the minor versions released from the first GA date will be supported up to the major version EOL date. Page: 1 w: www.mariadb.com e: [email protected] The following schedule shows the GA and EOL dates: Major Version Stable (GA) Date Five year (EOL) date 5.5 09 Dec 2014 09 Dec 2017 (*) 10.0 24 June 2014 24 June 2019 (*) As the current EOL for the Community 5.5 is in April 2017, the Enterprise & Enterprise Cluster 5.5 EOL will be in the same year. 2. Supported platforms & operating systems
MariaDB Enterprise tries to support as many different Operating Systems, Linux Distributions, and processor architectures as possible. The current coverage can be summarised as the following one : Page: 2 w: www.mariadb.com e: [email protected] 3. Deprecation Policy
When a distribution or operating system stops receiving security and other updates it becomes difficult for the MariaDB Enterprise project to freely provide packages for that platform. In such cases, our policy is to deprecate that platform and stop providing binary packages for it. The planned deprecation dates are the following : Platform Planned Deprecation Date Fedora 19 "Schrödinger's Cat" 1 month after release of Fedora 21 Fedora 20 "Heisenbug" 1 month after release of Fedora 22 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid" Apr 2015 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Mar 2017 CentOS 5 Mar 2017 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise" Apr 2017 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty" Apr 2019 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Nov 2020 CentOS 6 Nov 2020 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 June 2024 CentOS 7 June 2024 Debian 6 "Squeeze" Debian 7 "Wheezy" Windows XP+ ●
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