MariaDB Maintenance Policy

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The MariaDB project is a community project governed by the MariaDB Foundation. The MariaDB Foundation has an Engineering Steering Committee (ESC), which is an elected body and represents the technical leadership. It’s ultimately up to the ESC to accept commits against any version of MariaDB and also correspondingly decide which versions of MariaDB should be built and packaged.

The MariaDB project is as active as the community around it and the MariaDB Foundation members actively working on and enhancing MariaDB. Therefore, from the MariaDB project perspective, the aspiration is for each major version of MariaDB to be maintained for five years after its initial stable (GA) version. The guideline for supporting this policy is that bug reports not accepted by a member within 1 month on any major release over 5 years old will be marked "unmaintained" and closed. If bug reports are accepted within the 1 month timeframe, builds will only be packaged if the ESC expressly requests this.

With this guideline in mind and the aspiration of having each major release maintained for five years after the first stable (GA) release all current versions of MariaDB 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.5 and 10.0 are currently "maintained". The following schedule shows the dates when this will change:

Major VersionStable (GA) DateFive year boundary date
5.11 Feb 20101 Feb 2015
5.210 Nov 201010 Nov 2015
5.329 Feb 20121 Mar 2017
5.511 Apr 201211 Apr 2017
10.031 Mar 201431 Mar 2019
10.1Not Stable5 years after stable (GA) release date

Members of the MariaDB Foundation can of course offer services to their customers that cover the versions even longer and provide SLA commitments. MariaDB Foundation does not provide support; if you need it you should contact one of our members.

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