2.5.12 production ready (Re: [Announce] GnuPG 2.5.12 released)

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Mittwoch 03 September 2025 11:49:32 schrieb Werner Koch via Gnupg-users:
> On Wed,  3 Sep 2025 09:21, Bernhard Reiter said:
> > Congratulations to 2.5.12 and that it is now ready for production usage!
>
> It has been for quite some time:
>
>   Note that this 2.5 series [...]

This note first appeared in the 2.5.12 announcement, the last release 
announcement was 2.5.9 and did not have this note.

> I just added a note to make this more clear. 

Very good, may I ask where: for the next annoucement or on the webpages?
I think Andrew's question is good, if the even odd logic is kept.
It helps to communicate to our users.

Of course a mature 2.5. series can be "production ready" and still not
"stable" in the sense that more features are planned.

> FWIW, we have customers using this on their systems since December.

Good to know!

(General remark: pre-releases can be used in production if the usage
is known and monitored closely. And the more usage a product revision or 
series sees, the better.)


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