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Maintenance Policy for Ruby on Rails
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Support of the Rails framework is divided into four groups: New features, bug
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fixes, security issues, and severe security issues. They are handled as
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follows, all versions in x.y.z format
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New Features
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New features are only added to the master branch and will not be made available
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in point releases.
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Bug Fixes
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---------
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Only the latest release series will receive bug fixes. When enough bugs are
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fixed and its deemed worthy to release a new gem, this is the branch it happens
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from.
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**Currently included series:** 4.0.z
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Security Issues
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---------------
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The current release series and the next most recent one will receive patches
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and new versions in case of a security issue.
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These releases are created by taking the last released version, applying the
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security patches, and releasing. Those patches are then applied to the end of
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the x-y-stable branch. For example, a theoretical 1.2.3 security release would
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be built from 1.2.2, and then added to the end of 1-2-stable. This means that
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security releases are easy to upgrade to if you're running the latest version
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of Rails.
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**Currently included series:** 4.0.z, 3.2.z
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Severe Security Issues
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For severe security issues we will provide new versions as above, and also the
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last major release series will receive patches and new versions. The
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classification of the security issue is judged by the core team.
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**Currently included series:** 4.0.z, 3.2.z
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Unsupported Release Series
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When a release series is no longer supported, it's your own responsibility to
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deal with bugs and security issues. We may provide backports of the fixes and
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publish them to git, however there will be no new versions released. If you are
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not comfortable maintaining your own versions, you should upgrade to a
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supported version.
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