Redmine

Hi Erik,

The EOL for Redmine 3.4 has not been announced yet, but from the last few years example, maintenance objects are the latest version and the one previous version. (Redmine 3.2 was exceptionally maintained for a long time. )
For instance, the current maintenance objects are the latest version 4.0 and the previous 3.4. The maintenance term for 3.3 was ended with 3.3.9 at the same moment when 4.0.0 was released.
In terms of these principles, I estimate the maintenance term for 3.4 will be finished at the same time when 4.1.0 is released.
Recently 4.1.0 has been actively fixing, I expect it will release within 2019.
From those reasons, I anticipate the maintenance term for 3.4 would be ended during this year.

Thanks

Thank you, that's very helpful.

I'm especially interested if there's likely to be a 3.5, 3.6, etc., or if there's a concrete plan to retire the 3.x series altogether. (Going from 3 to 4 is what worries us the most in terms of required changes to plugins etc.)

Erik Moeller wrote:

I'm especially interested if there's likely to be a 3.5, 3.6, etc., or if there's a concrete plan to retire the 3.x series altogether. (Going from 3 to 4 is what worries us the most in terms of required changes to plugins etc.)

Redmine 3.5 will never be released.

As you can see on the roadmap page, Redmine 3.5 is not there and no one is working on developing it. The community is focusing on upcoming Redmine 4.1.

I think that ruby goes to newer versions, RoR also goes ahead rapidly. So, it would be a loss of time to maintain Redmine 3.x.x. Instead, it would be better to work on changing the plugins.