[Announce] Samba 3.5.0 Available for Download

[Karolin Seeger]

Hello Yannick,

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:23:39AM -0500, yaberger at ca.ibm.com wrote:
> Based on this statement on the Samba Wiki, I'm wondering what is the upcoming
> release cycle.
> "The regular Samba3 release cycle intends a new major release every six month
> (around July 1 and December 15)"
> 
> 01-July-2008 - 3.2.0 final has been released.
> 01-March-2010 - Samba 3.2 discontinued
> 
> 27-January-2009 - Samba 3.3.0 has been released
> should be discontinued around July 2010 with the release of 3.6.0
> 
> 3-July-2009 - Samba 3.4.0 has been released
> should be discontinued around December 2010 with the release of 3.7.0
> 
> 01-March-2010 - Samba 3.5.0 has been released
> should be discontinued around July 2011 with the release of 3.8.0
> 
> 
> with the 2.5 months gap that we got between the release of 3.5.0 vs the
> intended release cycle, is there any chance that the intended release cycle get
> moved around March 1 and September 15, which would result in:
> 
> 3.3.0 should be discontinued around September 2010 with the release of 3.6.0
> 3.4.0 should be discontinued around March 2011 with the release of 3.7.0
> 3.5.0 should be discontinued around September 2011 with the release of 3.8.0
> 
> that would provide everyone a small breath in the upgrade schedule to stay on a
> maintained release
> and would probably allow you to get a few more things pushed in the upcoming
> 3.6.0 release
> 
> 
> Also, I'm wondering if there could be some kind of "long term support" release,
> which could be supported for security issues for more than 18 months (3 years
> would be awesome)

as Volker already said, we are discussing this topic internally right now.
We will come up with the results as soon as possible.

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

Cheers,
Karolin

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