What is the difference between Active Lifecycle and Extended Lifecycle support?
Active Lifecycle is characterized by a regular maintenance schedule that helps to ensure most customer reported issues, of all severity levels, are fixed and available on a regular and predictable basis. This helps to ensure that customers have the option to implement the most current version of the product allowing for the highest level of Production Lifecycle Support. Extended Lifecycle support is provided to help ensure that customers who have standardized on a specific version of the product can receive Production Lifecycle Support for multiple years. Under Extended Lifecycle support, maintenance releases are only provided on a when-needed basis, and only to fix Security and Severity Level 1 incidents. Extended Lifecycle support requires Sun to bear incrementally higher costs of maintaining older versions of the MySQL product. To cover for these additional costs, Extended Lifecycle support is only available with certain MySQL Commercial Support offerings.
