Re: [Openvpn-users] Removing support for MacOS X 10.3 and earlier?

[Mark <ma...@ed...>]

About time to.

No one should really be on 10.3 anymore.

On 10-Mar-2010, at 7:02 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:

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> On 10/03/10 11:48, Samuli Seppänen wrote:
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>>> Hey mattock,
>>> It is pretty normal to drop support for older osX versions, most apps do
>>> it.  I would say that nobody would be surprised by this move... just add a
>>> download for last version that supports older osX in the downloads page. 
>>> Then even if there are still people using openvpn on old osX versions,
>>> they could still just download the old version, which they surely are used
>>> to doing by now.
>>> 
>>> -krzee
>>> 
>> Jonathan (maintainer of Tunnelblick) confirmed that only a handful (if
>> any) using OpenVPN on 10.3. Tiger (10.4) is still in relatively wide
>> use, even though it does not seem to get any security fixes. In any
>> case, we'll be dropping "official" support for 10.3 in the next release.
>> It might very well work regardless of that. Having older OpenVPN
>> versions on the downloads page for old OS'es makes sense.
> 
> The only problem I see with providing downloads of older versions which
> is no longer supported, is that they might contain security issues which
> newer supported releases have included.  But if you're running an OS
> which is no longer supported by the OS vendor, that is also a security
> issue.  So the user might not care.
> 
> The question is, if we care? And how we care if people are using
> vulnerable OpenVPN versions actively?  Maybe we should add a disclaimer
> during start-up of OpenVPN screaming out loud that this version is no
> longer supported and might contain security issues.  This approach
> mainly makes sense on major versions, like v2.0.  Or just to make a
> clear statement on the download page of the different versions, what it
> means to run an unsupported version.
> 
> Except for that, I agree, we should be able to retire support for older
> and expired OSes.  The world needs to move on.
> 
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> David Sommerseth
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