WordPress 4.9 Branch support Status
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Hello everyone =)
I was searching everywhere which WordPress-Branch still get (security) Updates. Many pages tell different stories, some of your pages say that “5.1.x” and higher get (security) Updates, others say that I have to use “5.2”~
I have a page, which still stays on the 4.9 branch, because it was told, that this branch still get security Updates.
So my question is basically, is the 4.9 branch still supported? Also were can I see the support-status of a branch, like here: https://de.ww.wp.xz.cn/download/releases/
I think it would be awesome to have some indication behind the branch name like “Active”/”Inactive”Thanks for your time =)
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There’s no “official” statement (WordPress is an opensource project) but unless it is explicitly stated on https://ww.wp.xz.cn/news/, all versions of WordPress from 3.7 and up will continue to receive security updates when possible. For example, WordPress 3.7.29 was released on March 21, 2019 and considering that 3.7 was released in 2013 that is remarkable.
I emphasized the “when possible” because there will come a time when that’s not practical or technically achievable. The older a release is then the odds of that happening go up.
WordPress 4.9 is not that old and has a large install base so that should continue to get security updates for years to come.
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