Support policy
==============

As of Elgg 1.9, each minor release gets:
 * Normal bugfixes every 2 weeks for 3 months, at which point the next minor release candidate is made available.
 * Security and critical (i.e. regression) bug fixes for 1 year from the date of the next stable minor release. These will be released on an as-needed basis.

.. seealso::

   :doc:`releases`

Below is a table outlining the specifics for each release:

+---------+----------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
| Version | First stable release | Bug fixes through | Security fixes through |
+=========+======================+===================+========================+
| 1.8     | September 2011       | August 2014       | September 2015         |
+---------+----------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
| 1.9     | September 2014       | January 2015      | January 2016           |
+---------+----------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
| 1.10    | January 2015         | April 2015        | April 2016             |
+---------+----------------------+-------------------+------------------------+
| 1.11    | April 2015           | July 2015         | July 2016              |
+---------+----------------------+-------------------+------------------------+

We don't have a support policy for major releases (x.0.0) yet because we've never done one.