End of life support date 7.22.x

[sidmishfpl1801]

Hello Community,
We are in the process of applying for FDA certification and need to include information about the end-of-life dates for a packages. Could someone please inform me if there are any available details regarding the end of support for babel version 7.22.x?

[liuxingbaoyu]

https://github.com/babel/babel/blob/main/SECURITY.md
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[nicolo-ribaudo]

does that mean security updates are not provided for versions 7.22.x or earlier?

Yes, exactly. We follow semver, so minor releases do not have breaking changes and thus you can safely update to the latest one to get the security fixes it includes.

[nicolo-ribaudo]

I'm not sure I understand your table -- 7.23.2 stops being maintained on the same day that it is released, as any fix will go in a release with a higher number.

I think the underlying assumption is wrong for this project: due to how we number releases, you should track the "7" release line and not "7.22", "7.23", "7.24" as separate release lines.

[sidmishfpl1801]

@nicolo-ribaudo Thanks for the clarification, i should consider the end of support for 7.x as indicated in the image below.

[nicolo-ribaudo]

Yes! As written there there is no an actual "end of support" date yet, given that we don't know when Babel 8 will be released.

What you could do is use "18-03-2025" (in one year) since Babel 7 will be for sure maintained until then (if we were to release Babel 8 tomorrow), and every few months update it again to be "one year from today".

[sidmishfpl1801]

Thanks a lot @nicolo-ribaudo for your quick reply, really appreciate that.