releases.html

---
title: "Release Information"
permalink: /releases/
---

<h2>Current Releases and Change Policy</h2>

{% assign list = site.releases | where_exp: 'item', 'item.mode != ""' | reverse %}
<ul>
  {% for item in list %}
    {% case item.mode %}
    {% when 'dev' %}
    <li><b>Trunk
    (<a href="{{ item.url }}">{{ item.version }}</a>)</b>
      <ul>
        <li>Approved changes added constantly</li>
        <li>Occasional development snapshots are released</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    {% when 'olddev' %}
    <li><b>Deprecated Trunk
    (<a href="{{ item.url }}">{{ item.version }}</a>)</b>
      <ul>
        <li>Formerly the development branch (Trunk) but no longer considered where current development happens.</li>
        <li>Will be around until we have a good way to upgrade from it to 5.9.x</li>
        <li>Contains security, crash, data loss, and selected critical fixes only</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    {% when 'current' %}
    <li><b>Current Stable Release
    (<a href="{{ item.url }}">{{ item.version }}</a>)</b>
      <ul>
        <li>Includes bug fixes and performance improvements only</li>
        <li>No new features or large scale performance improvements</li>
        <li>No database schema changes</li>
        <li>May contain documentation changes</li>
        <li>No changes to templates that aren't part of bug fix,
            other than typos or grammatical fixes</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    {% when 'old' %}
    <li><b>Old Stable Release
    (<a href="{{ item.url }}">{{ item.version }}</a>)</b>
      <ul>
        <li>Current policy is that 4 months after the next major release, support
          for the oldest stable release will be dropped. The other stable release
          will still be supported until four months after the following major release.
        </li>
        <li>Contains security, crash, data loss, and selected critical fixes only</li>
        <li>No documentation changes unrelated to the above changes allowed</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    {% when 'deprecated' %}
    <li><b>Deprecated Old Stable Release
    (<a href="{{ item.url }}">{{ item.version }}</a>)</b>
      <ul>
        <li>Current policy is that 4 months after the next major release, support
          for the oldest stable release will be dropped. The other stable release
          will still be supported until four months after the following major release.
          <strong>This branch is currently in that state, and has less than four
          months of support remaining.</strong>
        </li>
        <li>Contains security, crash, data loss, and selected critical fixes only</li>
        <li>No documentation changes unrelated to the above changes allowed</li>
      </ul>
    </li>
    {% endcase %}
  {% endfor %}
</ul>

<p>Any release prior to the old stable release is unsupported.</p>

<h2>Release Dates</h2>

<p>Here is a list of the release dates of every version of Bugzilla sorted by its branch. You can click on the version number for a list of release notes, download links, and security advisories relevant to that release.</p>

<ul>
{% assign grouped = site.releases | reverse | where_exp: 'item', 'item.mode != "dev"' | where_exp: 'item', 'item.mode != "olddev"' | group_by: 'branch' %}
{% for group in grouped %}
  {% assign groupid = group.name | replace: '.', '' %}
  <li id="heading{{ groupid }}">
    {% if group.name != '' %}{{ group.name }}{% else %}Older{% endif %}
    <ul>
  {% for item in group.items %}
      <li>
        <a href="{{ item.version }}/">{{ item.version }}</a>
        {{ item.date | date: "%b %d, %Y" }}
      </li>
  {% endfor %}
    </ul>
  </li>
{% endfor %}
</ul>