[clamav-users] Long Term Support (LTS) program proposal

[Paul Kosinski]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2021 02:37:53 +0000
"Joel Esler (jesler)" <jesler at cisco.com> wrote:

> > On Jul 30, 2021, at 14:41, Paul Kosinski via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
> > 
> > (I don't see exactly how a LTS would have helped with the bandwidth issue, but I suppose it wouldn't have made it any more disruptive.)  
> 
> 103.2 and 103.3 are much more respectful to bandwidth than any past version.  We’ve been working with Cloudflare on the development of a feature that is exactly optimized to handle these changes, and they are almost ready to deploy it.  We’ve tested it out and it works well, so we’re just waiting on a few more updates. 
> 


What I meant was that if (e.g.) 0.103.1 had been LTS, that alone wouldn't have solved the bandwidth overload. Making (e.g.) 0.104.x LTS will (of course) mitigate future bandwidth problems.