End of life statements
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We aim to have a major release every six months. The latest major release train receives correctness, stability and security updates by the way of minor releases. We support older releases with critical updates for one year after the following major release.

Older releases are marked end of life and receive no updates at all. Pre-releases do not receive immediate security updates.

The currently supported release train of PowerDNS DNSdist is 1.9.

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8 will only receive critical updates and will be End of Life one year after PowerDNS DNSdist 1.9 was released.

PowerDNS DNSdist 1.7 will only receive critical updates and will be End of Life one year after PowerDNS DNSdist 1.8 was released.

Older versions are End of Life.

.. note::
  Users with a commercial agreement with PowerDNS.COM BV or Open-Xchange can receive extended support for releases which are End Of Life. If you are such a user, these EOL statements do not apply to you. Please refer to the support commitment for details. Note that for the Open Source support channels we only support the latest minor release of a release train. That means that we ask you to reproduce potential issues on the latest minor release first.

.. list-table:: PowerDNS dnsdist Release Life Cycle
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   * - Version
     - Release date
     - Security-Only updates
     - End of Life
   * - 1.9
     - February 16 2024
     -
     -
   * - 1.8
     - March 30 2023
     - February 16 2024
     - February 16 2025
   * - 1.7
     - January 17 2022
     - March 30 2023
     - March 30 2024
   * - 1.6
     - May 11 2021
     - March 30 2023
     - EOL (February 16 2024)
   * - 1.5
     - July 2020
     - January 2022
     - EOL (March 30 2023)
   * - 1.4
     - November 2019
     - May 2021
     - EOL (January 2022)
   * - 1.3
     - March 2018
     - EOL
     - EOL (May 2021)
   * - 1.2
     - August 2017
     - EOL
     - EOL
   * - 1.1
     - December 2016
     - EOL
     - EOL
   * - 1.0
     - April 2016
     - EOL
     - EOL
