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- <h2>Apache Struts Extras GA</h2>
+ <h2>Apache Struts 2.3.x EOL</h2>
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- The Struts Extras secure Multipart plugins General Availability - versions 1.1, use them to secure your
- application against critical security vulnerability reported in <a href="/docs/s2-045.html">S2-045</a>,
- <a href="/docs/s2-046.html">S2-046</a>, read more in <a href="announce-2017.html#a20170323">Announcement</a>
- or in <a href="https://github.com/apache/struts-extras">README</a>
+ The Apache Struts Team informs about discontinuing support for Struts 2.3.x branch in 6 months, you can expect only support
+ in case of security issues and we recommend migration to the latest version of Struts, read more in
+ <a href="struts23-eol-announcement.md">Announcement</a>
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+title: Apache Struts 2.3.x EOL Announcement
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+# Apache Struts 2.3.x End-Of-Life (EOL) Announcement
+
+**The Apache Struts Project Team would like to inform you that the Struts 2.3.x web framework will reach its end of life in 6 months and won't be longer officially supported.**
+
+This announcement takes place on 2018-11-14 and starting from that date we will only support Apache Struts 2.3.x in case of security vulnerabilities.
+Withing those 6 months period you can expect that we do our best to keep Struts 2.3.x branch secure but some of the security related changes
+cannot happen without architectural changes that ca affect backward compatibility. This what happened to Struts 2.5.x, we introduced some
+internal changes to improve overall framework's security.
+
+## Questions and Answers
+
+* **With the announcement of Struts 2.3.x EOL, what happens to Struts 2.3.x resources?**
+
+ All resources will stay where they are. The documentation will still be accessible from the Apache Struts homepage, as well as the downloads
+ for all released Struts 2.3.x versions. All of the Struts 2.3.x source code can be found in the Apache Struts Git repository under branch
+ `support-2-3`, now and in future. All released Maven artifacts will still be accessible in Maven Central.
+
+* **Given a major security problem or a serious bug is reported for Struts 2.3.x in near future, can we expect a new release with fixes?**
+
+ Yes, we will continue to support Struts 2.3.x in case of security issues for the next 6 months, after that time we won't support this branch
+ in ant case.
+
+* **Is there an immediate need to eliminate Struts 2.3.x from my projects?**
+
+ As far as the Struts team is currently aware of, there is no urgent issue posing the immediate need to eliminate Struts 2.3.x usage from
+ your projects. However, you should consider migration to the latest available version as we stop supporting this version in 6 months.
+
+* **We plan to start a new project based on Struts 2.3.x. Can we still do so?**
+
+ Basically yes, but we would not recommend doing so. As long as no code line is written it is very easy to conceptually select
+ the latest version of Struts 2.
+
+* **My friends / colleagues and I would like to see Struts 2.3.x being maintained again. What can we do?**
+
+ You are free to put effort in Struts 2.3.x. There are basically one possibility: fork the existing source and support it on your own.
