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The community (developers) is encouraged to use the latest EdgeX development releases when creating new products and services. Businesses and organizations (adopters) are encouraged to use the latest LTS release when releasing (for production settings) their own products and services that are built on top of or including EdgeX. The EdgeX Foundry community makes announcements on its website about upcoming release end of life LTS events. Users are encouraged to watch the EdgeX Foundry web site and Wiki for support notifications. The Releases page of the EdgeX Wiki will always provide the latest status and news regarding EdgeX LTS releases.
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The EdgeX community will maintain all materials from copies of the release materials in the list below in order to address issues and provide LTS minor and patch releases.
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Work such as examples (in the edgex-examples repository) will typically not be covered under LTS.
The items covered under LTS will be itemized in the release notes by the TSC when an LTS is designated. The TSC reserves the right to exclude some elements from LTS when designating an LTS. As mentioned previously in this document, the support period for the LTS and all of its elements will be stipulated at the time of LTS designation and will also mentioned in the release notes for the release.
LTS Rebuilds
[Ernesto to provide details (how we rebuild and what needs to be in place)]
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STS is provided for with each release (typically a release is made every 6 months). Work group chairpersons determine which issues (critical, high, medium or low) in the latest release must be addressed (in consultation with the release czar and with approval of the TSC) and may release a minor or patch release to address issues for that release before the next release. Once a new release is made (a , the old release STS (for any release that is not designated as an LTS release) , the old release STS ends and no further work / support is made on the old release.
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