Backporting bug fixes to 5.1.x?

Classic Servoy
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I’ve noticed there is a lot of activity on 5.2 and a lot of fixes have been implemented for bugs that are particularly troublesome to me in 5.1.x (and before). I would really like to see bugs back ported to 5.1.x and am wondering whether or not Servoy intends to continue supporting 5.1.x w/ bug fixes? Will there be another 5.1.x release (e.g. 5.1.5) and will it contain bug fixes from Servoy 5.2?

Please advise

2

Servoy 5.2 will replace the Servoy 5.1.x branch, thus there will be no maintenance releases for 5.1 anymore.

Paul

3

Is there any hope for a long-term supported Servoy release?! I’m not sure whom is driving the need for all of the new features in 5.2, but I really need a stable Servoy release that is supported for more than a few months (I thought 5.1 was going to finally be it). Has Servoy considered a longer commitment to releases? I don’t need the features in 5.2, but I do need the bug fixes. I know I’m not alone in this…why the need to move so quickly and add in features, while many of the “features” I have now don’t even work correctly!

I would even be open to a pay subscription to a long-term release (which included bug fixes from newer releases) if Servoy agreed to support it for years instead of months.

[/gripe]

4

You can consider 5.2 a maintenance release on the 5.1.x branch. It was just renumbered to 5.2, because we included PostgreSQL as database and a few other items.

Paul

5

OK, how long will Servoy officially support and backport bug fixes into 5.2 from 6 then? thanks.

6

I think you can see our trackrecord under the announcement section of this forum: for example: Servoy 3.5, released on the 13th of September 2007 has been in active maintenance up until it’s end-of-life on june 30th this year.

Paul

7

Right and I think 3.5 was very well supported. But 5.1 for example is being EOL’d in just a few short months. But I think you are saying that 5.2 will have “long-term support” as 3.5 did?

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5.1 is not EOL, it’s just became 5.2.

Each main branch (Servoy 3, Servoy 4, Servoy 5, Servoy 6 etc.) has only one actively maintained branch.
For the Servoy 3 branch is stopped at 3.5.x
For the Servoy 4 branch it stopped at 4.1.x
For the Servoy 5 branch it’’ be 5.2.x unless something very unforeseeable will happen :-)

Paul