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List of Releases

This is a list of stable releases of Lactoserv.

Series lifecycle

A release series starts as a "development" series. Some release series then become "active" then "maintenance" and finally "retired."

Development release series are considered "unstable," in that no guarantees are made with regards to forward or backward compatibility of such releases within the series or between series. (That is, semantic versioning does not apply to unstable releases.)

At some point, a development release series might get a stable release. With this stable release, the series becomes active, and semantic versioning applies to it with regards to other stable releases within and between series. And, once a series becomes active, no further unstable releases are made to it. (Should the stability guarantee turn out to be inadvertently violated, the release in question will be withdrawn.)

Later, a new development release series may become active, at which point the current active release series becomes a maintenance series. Maintenance series only receive urgent new releases (e.g. to address security problems) and on a best-effort basis at that. As an exception, the project developers are able to make fixes to maintenance release series on a paid contract basis. (Send email to inquire.)

Approximately a year after an maintenance release series's first stable release or approximately six months after it became a maintenance release (whichever is later), it transitions to retired. Retired series are not further developed (again, with the possible exception of paid work).

Active release series

Maintenance release series

  • v0.8:
    • 2026-06-01: Scheduled for retirement
    • 2025-12-09: Moved to maintenance
    • 2025-01-06: First stable release, v0.8.6

Retired release series

  • v0.7:

    • 2025-06-04: Retired
    • 2025-01-06: Moved to maintenance
    • 2024-07-30: Released v0.7.8
    • 2024-06-04: First stable release, v0.7.6

  • v0.6:

    • 2025-04-22: Retired
    • 2024-06-04: Moved to maintenance
    • 2024-04-22: First stable release, v0.6.16

  • v0.5:

    • 2024-12-15: Retired
    • 2024-04-22: Moved to maintenance
    • 2023-12-15: First stable release, v0.5.20