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by zwily 4825 days ago
I have heard, but can't find an official reference to it now, that Rails 2.3 will stop receiving security updates once Rails 4 is released. (I suspect that patches will still become available for serious issues even once official support is dropped.)
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Rails Core will not support 2.3.X, in any fashion, after 4.X is released. It is not relevant to their interests. It is very relevant to my interests, so watch for a coming announcement on my blog, or (an alternative) switch to Gthub's fork of 2.3.X.

Maintenance policy: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/?fromgroups#!topic/rubyonr...

Right - that's what I've heard, but that email doesn't explicitly say that.
Right, so you have your migration to Rails 3 ready to go as soon as Rails 4 ships. When Rails N has shipped, consider Rails N-1 to have become the "stable" release and Rails N-2 to be deprecated.