Supported Version Life Cycle

[sebastianliebscher]

Hi Superset Community, the Version Life Cycle from Airflow inspired me to put this together, as I couldn't find any relevant info in this compressed format so far. If I missed any relevant info, please post them here. Maybe this can be further fed with information (as I assumed a lot here after reading the dev mailing list and GitHub comments) and even added to the official documentation or the GitHub Wiki.

Version	Current Patch/Minor	State	First Release	Limited Support	EOL/Terminated
2.1	2.1.0	Supported	Apr 5, 2023	TBD	TBD
2.0	2.0.1	Supported	Jul 14, 2022	TBD	with the release of 4.0?
1.5	1.5.3	Supported	Apr 28, 2022	TBD	with the release of 3.0?
1.4	1.4.2	EOL	Jan 19, 2022	TBD	with the release of 2.0?

[michael-s-molina]

Hi @sebastianliebscher. We were just discussing this internally! We have a meeting scheduled for after 3.0 to review our release process and one topic is to establish a clear definition of supported releases, release cadence, documentation, etc. Thank you for this table, it will definitely help with discussions and it may help others while we wait for these definitions. I think it's fair to say we are currently only supporting 3.0 and 2.1 and there's no concept of Limited Support. A more accurate table would be:

Version	Current Patch/Minor	State	First Release	EOL/Terminated
3.0	3.0.0RC1	Supported	TBD	TBD
2.1	2.1.0	Supported	Apr 5, 2023	TBD
2.0	2.0.1	EOL	Jul 14, 2022	Apr 5, 2023
1.5	1.5.3	EOL	Apr 28, 2022	Apr 5, 2023
1.4	1.4.2	EOL	Jan 19, 2022	Apr 28, 2022

CVEs for each of the releases above.

Pinging some folks who might be interested in this discussion: @rusackas @eschutho @john-bodley @dpgaspar

[sebastianliebscher]

Thank you @michael-s-molina for the quick feedback and clarification! This helps a lot!

[michael-s-molina]

I edited my comment to also include a link to the CVEs by release published by @dpgaspar.

[rusackas]

Indeed! As @michael-s-molina we're definitely looking forward to formalizing this, via the Release Strategy meetings (which you're welcome to join if you'd like), and probably Town Hall (which you can also join). These are both available on the community calendar. Once we get it all ironed out, it should be on the docs and/or wiki, and probably on that calendar if we go with time-driven releases.

[ddhecker]

Have there been any updates on this? I don't see a formal end of support listed in the docs as was discussed in this thread. Thanks!

[rusackas]

I think the most current doc you'd want to refer to is the wiki:
https://github.com/apache/superset/wiki/Release-Process

Let us know if there are more specific answers/targets/dates you're looking for.