Announcing dbus 1.10.x end of life

[Simon McVittie]

On Thu, 02 Jul 2020 at 21:02:49 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> The dbus 1.10.x branch was originally released in 2015 [and]
> is planned to reach end-of-life status at the end of Debian 9's official
> security support (approximately July 2020).

This happened several months ago, and no releases after 1.10.32 are
planned to be made from the dbus-1.10 branch. The replacement is
dbus 1.12.x or later.

If new security issues are discovered in dbus, they will not be fixed
in the 1.10.x branch.

Change-averse downstream distributions that have dbus 1.10.x or older
in their long-term-stable package repositories (such as Debian 9 LTS,
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) are welcome to backport
security fixes from 1.12.x, but should not expect new upstream releases.

dbus 1.12.x will be included in Debian 11 and is intended to receive
security updates where necessary until at least the end of official
security support for Debian 11 (expected to be around 2024).

    smcv