Rod Johnson wrote:
However, some in the community expressed concern about the fact that after 3 months tags would not be available in the repository. They worried about the risk of an extended window between binary releases available to the community, when the absence of tags might make it hard to access bug fixes.
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We are amending our maintenance policy in the light of community feedback. We will make regular binary releases from the Spring trunk available to the community, with no 3 month window. For each version of Spring, community releases will be available while it remains the trunk or until the next version is stable.
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As an example, Spring 2.5.x remains the trunk, so under this policy amendment we will be releasing Spring 2.5.6 to the community very shortly. Spring 3.0M1 will be released shortly afterward and the trunk will be for 3.0 development. Once we release Spring 3.0 RC1 we will no longer provide tags or releases for the 2.5.x branch. We will focus on 3.0 development so that we can release 3.0 as soon as possible after the first milestone.