From 0c150f4c3a277186fd0cbebf25d1564654c66d08 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aleksa Sarai Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:06:39 +1100 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] RELEASES: remove 'draft' section of policy We have used this release policy for a year and it seems to work well for everyone and we haven't received much feedback, so it seems reasonable to say that we are committed to this policy now. Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai --- RELEASES.md | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASES.md b/RELEASES.md index 663df1d9be2..a27cca03a16 100644 --- a/RELEASES.md +++ b/RELEASES.md @@ -18,13 +18,6 @@ formally guarantee that API compatibility will be preserved. ### Release Cadence ### -> **NOTE**: At time of writing, this proposal is still a draft as we have not -> yet done several releases using this cadence. If you have feedback on this -> proposal (such as how well this proposal addresses your needs as a downstream -> packager of runc), please feel free to [open an issue][new-issue] so we can -> discuss it further. However, the current plan is for this proposal to be -> followed for the `1.3.0` and `1.4.0` releases in 2025. - [new-issue]: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/issues/new/choose runc follows a 6-month minor version release schedule, with the aim of releases From bf258ce1636e22339e204b01adf52f77932612ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aleksa Sarai Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:07:45 +1100 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] RELEASES: remove <= 1.1.x special casing Now that runc 1.4.0 has been released, there is no need to single out 1.1.x and earlier as no longer being supported, as latest-2 is now 1.2.x and thus 1.1.x would no longer be supported even with the new support model. Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai --- RELEASES.md | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASES.md b/RELEASES.md index a27cca03a16..8d4af0b9a9d 100644 --- a/RELEASES.md +++ b/RELEASES.md @@ -61,13 +61,6 @@ Here is a hypothetical release timeline to see how this works in practice: ### Support Policy ### -> **NOTE**: The following policy provides much longer support guarantees than -> we have historically provided for older runc releases. In order to avoid -> adding new support guarantees for old runc versions we have long-since -> stopped supporting, the following support policy only applies for runc -> releases from `1.2.0` onwards. In other words, runc `1.1.0` and `1.0.0` are -> not guaranteed support by this policy. - In order to ease the transition between minor runc releases, previous minor release branches of runc will be maintained for some time after the newest minor release is published. In the following text, `latest` refers to the