XenForo 1.5 is no longer in active development

sdev · Jan 8, 2019

Bad decision. Now we're going to have a huge amount of hacked XF forums in 2020 and beyond. Not to mention the extra work this will bring to some of the forums I run which doesnt have that many visitors (yet). Without no real benefit.

Find no thread in on XF forums to complain about this?

zappaDPJ · Jan 8, 2019

sdev said:

Find no thread in on XF forums to complain about this?
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I haven't seen one but you could start one

I agree it's a decision which doesn't meet my needs but in order to be hacked the software needs a flaw and Xenforo seems to be quite robust in that area. XF 1.5 might remain secure for another five years or it may not. It's the uncertainty that's the issue.

Ingenious · Jan 8, 2019

It might remain secure but I would hope they would still issue patches or the likes if not even after their deadline expires. I suppose this is a common problem for developers though, where to draw the line, especially if you're still developing new products.

Steve · Jan 8, 2019

Ingenious said:

It might remain secure but I would hope they would still issue patches or the likes if not even after their deadline expires. I suppose this is a common problem for developers though, where to draw the line, especially if you're still developing new products.
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Once the active support period has passed, we will only release new XenForo 1.5 versions if security flaws are identified. We will continue to do so until December 31, 2019, after which there will be no further XenForo 1.5 updates of any kind
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https://xenforo.com/community/threads/xenforo-1-5-end-of-life-schedule.157679/

Slavik · Jan 8, 2019

The days of supporting old software ad-infinitum are quickly disappearing, and rightfully so.

Alfa1 · Jan 8, 2019

I hope that if the situation occurs that a significant number of sites are still on xf1 after it no longer gets security/bugfix updates and those webmasters let their license expire, that XF would re-evaluate the situation at that point. But we will see what happens.

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