Basic questions about IdP 3.3.0

[Cantor, Scott]

On 11/12/16, 12:29 AM, "users on behalf of Takeshi NISHIMURA" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of takeshi at nii.ac.jp> wrote:
> My belief is that 3.2.1 is supported during this month.

3.2.1 is formally unsupported the minute 3.3.0 is released. If there's a compelling need because of unforeseen circumstances to go back and support the branch, that would be announced and reflected in the statements in the documentation, but there has never been such a case in the project's history except for one branch transition in the SP. I waited a year or so to EOL 2.4 when 2.5 was put out. I don't recall it ever happening with the IdP.

> Currently there is no 3.2.1 line, but surely "Nov 2016" must be the date of EOL of 3.2.1, not of 3.2.0.

That doesn't mean we support it for the month, it's just shorthand noting the month of the transition.

"Support" here of course really means bug fixes and security issues. There will not be a 3.2.2, not if the whole system was deemed insecure.

> BTW, the color of "3.3.0" may be green, according to previous convention.
>
> I'm willing to update when confirmed.

Probably so.

> This linked page (SHIB2/Home) now contains no version of Shibboleth IdP V3. If we must follow another link, I
> prefer to modify this sentence to provide two links.

There's a sentence there saying V2 is unsupported and pointing to the V3 wiki space.

-- Scott