(Devil's advocate:) 5.3 vs.5.2 vs. 5.1 vs. 5.0 releases

[sur-behoffski <sur_behoffski@...>]

Subject: Re: Where can I download the Lua 5.1's manual?
From: Daurnimator <quae@daurnimator.com>
Date: 07/03/16 17:32
To: Lua mailing list <lua-l@lists.lua.org>

On 3 Jul 2016 14:12, "sur-behoffski" <sur_behoffski@grouse.com.au> wrote:
> > [...]

> Actually your interpretation is correct.
> There *will not* be a 5.1.6; 5.1.5 is the last release of the 5.1 branch.
> Whereas 5.3 will have future releases.

Current release for 5.3: 5.3.3, released on 06 Jun 2016.

Last release for 5.2:    5.2.4, released on 07 Mar 2015.

Last release for 5.1:    5.1.5, released on 17 Feb 2012.

There was overlap between the initial release of 5.1 (21 Feb 2006) and the
"last" release of 5.0 (5.0.3, 26 Jun 2006).  Similarly for 5.2 versus 5.1
(16 Dec 2011 versus 17 Feb 2012).

Is there an official policy about support for old versions, perhaps
including ongoing bugfix support, and/or backporting bugfixes as
appropriate?

For versions that are guaranteed to have no further releases, I would
appreciate the versions page label the release as "final".

cheers,

sur-behoffski [etc...]