[ovs-discuss] LTS releases

Kentaro Ebisawa ebiken.g at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 09:39:03 UTC 2015


Hi,

So should we fix the FAQ to say "The current LTS release is 2.3.x." ?
Or are both 1.9.x and 2.3.x currently in LTS ?

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Kentaro Ebisawa <ebiken.g at gmail.com>

On 2014/12/11 7:25, Justin Pettit wrote:
>> On Dec 9, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Mark Haywood <mark.haywood at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/8/14, 2:02 AM, Justin Pettit wrote:
>>>> On Dec 7, 2014, at 5:44 PM, Mark Haywood <mark.haywood at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The FAQ says that there are usually several long-term support releases a year. What determines when an LTS is released and when would there be another one taking the place of 2.3.0?
>>> The LTS releases happen as critical bug fixes are fixed or every few months otherwise. We're going to try to introduce more regularity with a new QA process that is in the early planning stages.
>> So, I think you this means 2.3.1 might be released as bug fixes require or possibly in a few months as a mechanism to release a collection of non-critical bug fixes?
> Correct.  In fact, we already released 2.3.1:
>
> 	http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/announce/2014-December/000071.html
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>>> As for when new LTS branches are chosen, that's less predictable. In the past we tried to do them roughly once a year, but we made so many fundamental architectural changes between 1.10 and 2.2 that we deliberately locked 1.9 as the LTS until 2.3. I don't expect that we'll need to do that again, so there should be a more regular cadence between LTSs.
>> And this means a new branch, say 2.4 maybe, would possibly be released in about a year?
> 2.4 will likely be released early in the first quarter of 2015.  However, 2.4 will not be an LTS.  Some later version of OVS will be LTS, which will likely be a year or so from now.  Put another way, not every "y" in a "x.y.z" version is LTS.
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> --Justin
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