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+layout: news_post
+title: "Approved Maintenance Policy"
+author: "zzak"
+translator:
+date: 2014-01-13 03:28:19 UTC
+lang: en
+---
+
+We've decided our plans for ruby-core supported maintenance periods of Ruby.
+
+For context, you should read our recent policy changes for [semantic versioning](/en/news/2013/12/21/semantic-versioning-after-2-1-0).
+
+Given the current supported version scheme, the ruby-core policy is as follows:
+
+  * `MINOR`: With "best effort" goal with at least 6 months and at best 3 years or after two newer `MINOR` releases.
+  * `TEENY`: Will be released approximately every 2-4 months.
+
+During this time, the ruby-core team will support maintained versions of Ruby in the following groups:
+
+## Bug fix
+
+For general bug fixes, we will support the latest release until a decision is made to end support.
+
+## Security fix
+
+After bug fix period has ended, security maintenance will continue until the version is End-of-Life.
+
+## End-of-Life and Unsupported Versions
+
+Once a version is End-of-Life, it's your responsibility to deal with bugs and security fixes. An approved commercial party may be able to accept responsibility of maintaining an End-of-Life version.
+
+It's important to recognize the maintainer for each version may decide they can no longer support a version, in which case ruby-core would work to responsibly discontinue the version.
+
+## Your encouragement is appreciated
+
+Please understand that we want to focus on improving Ruby for future releases and encourage the use of the latest stable release. The longer a version lives the harder it becomes to maintain it. With the limited resources of ruby-core, it makes it hard for us to maintain more than 2 stable versions at a time.
+
+We're going to give our best effort to support this policy in order to provide a sustainable upgrade path to modern versions of Ruby.
+
+Thank you for your support as we continue to provide a stable and healthy Ruby.
+