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by ubernostrum 4446 days ago
There's a parallel in the Python world too: when Django 0.95 made a ton of backwards-incompatible changes, there were a lot of existing installs that simply couldn't make the jump quickly. So bugfix-only support continued, as a community project (I should know, since I helped with it), for quite some time past the official EOL.