revised October 7th, 2008) What is the new maintenance policy?
• SpringSource will make regular source and binary releases of the current major version of Spring available to the community until the next major version is available (defined as a release candidate for that version). After this point we will make all bug fixes and improvements available to the community in the current version only. Any back-ports will only be made available to subscription customers • SpringSource Enterprise customers who wish to continue to receive maintenance releases for previous versions of Spring will receive these releases for three years from the initial GA release of that version.Why did you revise the policy from the one posted on September 17th? We always listen to our community and we believe that this will resolve many of the concerns that had been raised by our community. Rod Johnson’s blog provides a detailed description of the thought process behind the change. Why is SpringSource introducing a maintenance policy? As SpringSource technologies have grow
