# Maintenance for Ruby 1.8.5 series to be officially dropped soon

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/maintenance-for-ruby-1-8-5-series-to-be-officially-dropped-soon/139164>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [May 31, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/maintenance-for-ruby-1-8-5-series-to-be-officially-dropped-soon/139164 "2008-05-31T19:39:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Urabe\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ecc23a/32.png) [@Urabe\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Urabe_S)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/maintenance-for-ruby-1-8-5-series-to-be-officially-dropped-soon/139164/1 "2008-05-31T19:39:04Z")

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Hello all, I’m a person in charge of 1.8.5 maintenance.

As knu released new 1.8.7 release, we are planning to drop official  
support for 1.8.5, mainly due to human resource limitations.  
But don’t be hurry, not now. We have a few more patches to backport to  
it. Once they are all done I’ll make another release of 1.8.5 and  
that’ll be the last release. Security fixes, if any, will be provided  
until that point.  
Everyone please be sure to the plan. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![Urabe\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/ecc23a/32.png) [@Urabe\_S](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Urabe_S)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/maintenance-for-ruby-1-8-5-series-to-be-officially-dropped-soon/139164/2 "2008-06-15T19:16:35Z")

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Hi core,

Urabe S. wrote:

> Hello all, I’m a person in charge of 1.8.5 maintenance.
> 
> As knu released new 1.8.7 release, we are planning to drop official  
> support for 1.8.5, mainly due to human resource limitations.  
> But don’t be hurry, not now. We have a few more patches to backport to  
> it. Once they are all done I’ll make another release of 1.8.5 and  
> that’ll be the last release. Security fixes, if any, will be provided  
> until that point.  
> Everyone please be sure to the plan. Thank you.

I think I’ve backported those patches. Can you try 1.8.5 branch? The  
next release should be the last one for 1.8.5.