How does nginx set End of Life for older versions?

[deoren]

On 4/29/2015 8:58 AM, Valentin V. Bartenev wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 April 2015 08:40:30 deoren wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> I turned to the official website and Google, but I couldn't find a definitive answer re how older branches go End of Life. For example, now that the 1.8 stable branch has been created, what are the plans for the 1.6 branch? Will future updates be made available to that branch or is it no longer maintained?
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> http://nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-8-and-1-9-released/
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>   | We are no longer supporting 1.6 (the former stable branch)
>
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> See also: http://nginx.com/blog/nginx-1-6-1-7-released/
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>
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>> On a related note, if a branch is listed under "Legacy versions", does that mean it will no longer receive updates?
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> Yes.  At any period of time we have only one stable
> and one mainline branches, that receive updates.
>
>    wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev

Thanks! I will subscribe to that blog so I'll see future notices.