What is the EOL (End of Life) for Rails 2.3?

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What is the EOL date for Rails 2.3?

Jared Beck · Answer 1 · 2014-09-03T19:34:57.373

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2.3 reached EOL on 2013-06-25, when rails 4.0.0 was released.

Only the "last major release series" will receive patches, according to Michael Koziarski. Therefore, when 4.0 was released, 2.3 stopped receiving patches.

The rails team had hoped to drop support for 2.3 much earlier. On 2011-12-29 Aaron said:

.. we have no plans of releasing another version of 2.3 [beyond 2.3.14]

Before that, on 2011-06-08, Aaron said:

This branch [2.3] is in security-maintenance mode. We will release it when there are problems like "the sky is falling", or major security issues. It's time for us to focus on pushing Rails forward!

edited Sep 03 '14 at 19:34

answered Nov 05 '12 at 23:25

Jared Beck

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On a related note, `ruby 1.8.7` reaches EOL this month (June 2013). "We will no longer support 1.8.7 in all senses after June 2013." - [Urabe Shyouhei](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/10/06/plans-for-1-8-7/) – Jared Beck Jun 02 '13 at 18:03
As of a few years ago, rails now has an [official maintenance policy](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/maintenance_policy.html) – Jared Beck May 14 '18 at 16:41

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 30 '13 at 11:48

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There is a commercial service that will continue to provide security patches for Rails 2.3 after the version has reached EOL (when Rails 4 is released).

answered May 30 '13 at 11:48

triskweline

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This is useful information, but technically (quite pedantically) not an answer to the OP's question. :) – Jared Beck Jun 02 '13 at 18:07
Yes, and the link to RailsLTS should be a *comment*, not an answer. – karmi Oct 28 '13 at 08:24

What is the EOL (End of Life) for Rails 2.3?

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