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Does Spring Framework 2.X achieved EOL?

We have a large code base of approximately 200.00 lines, where Spring 2.X is used as the basic framework for application development. We are thinking of a major (and painful) upgrade to Spring 4.X for the simple reason that Spring 2.X no longer has commercial support.

I also noticed that the latest version of Spring Framework, 2.5.6, had no bugs or security fixes in the last 5 years? Does this mean that Spring 2.X is an orphaned project?

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Jan 02 '14 at 12:04 on
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Spring 2.X is definitely EOL-ed (and a very long time ago).

Once we have published a candidate for a new version of the project, we usually will not release additional tags or binary assemblies of earlier versions of the project in the open source community. Such releases will be available over three years for SpringSource Enterprise customers.

This means that it was EOL-ed when 3.0.0 was released, and, of course, now that 4.0.0. already released.

Even commercial support will not help you, because they only support 3 years ago, and Spring 2.5.6 was released in November 2008.

Source: http://spring.io/blog/2008/10/07/a-question-of-balance-tuning-the-maintenance-policy

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Jan 02 '14 at 13:29
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http://support.springsource.com/eol

Date: January 31, 2012 Today SpringSource, a division of VMware, announces that the End-Of-Life cycle for the next Spring projects begins. Commercial support for these versions will end on January 31, 2013.

  • Spring framework 2.5
  • Spring Security 2.0
  • Spring Web Flow 2.0
  • Spring LDAP 1.2

Users of these versions are encouraged to upgrade to their end-of-life dates.

Support can be reached through your portal at https://www.vmware.com/accounts .

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