Discontinue support for 4.4.

Signed-off-by: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net>
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Tom Eastep 2013-07-03 10:27:59 -07:00
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<year>2012</year>
<year>2013</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
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<listitem>
<para>Support is available through the <ulink
url="http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=22587">Mailing List</ulink>
for the two most recent Major Releases. Fixes will only be provided
for the last minor release in the previous Major Release. For example,
only 4.5.0 was released, the only fixes for major issues with 4.4.27
would be released for the 4.4 series.</para>
for the most recent Major Release.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>After the introduction of a new major release, support is still
available for the prior major release until the principle
distributions have upgraded to that new release. Fixes will only be
provided for the last minor release in the previous Major Release. For
example, once 4.5.0 was released, the only fixes for major issues with
4.4.27 would be released for the 4.4 series.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support for the prior major release ends once the major Linux
distributions have upgraded to that release. </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>The currently-supported major releases are 4.4 and 4.5.</para>
<para>The currently-supported major release 4.5.</para>
</section>
</article>

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<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The currently-supported Shorewall <ulink
url="ReleaseModel.html">major release</ulink> is 4.4.</para>
url="ReleaseModel.html">major release</ulink> is 4.5.</para>
<note>
<para>Shorewall versions earlier than 4.4.0 are no longer supported;
<para>Shorewall versions earlier than 4.5.0 are no longer supported;
we will try to help but we will not spend time reading earlier code
to try to help you solve a problem and we will not release a patch
to correct any defect found.</para>