Release policy

Our release policy could be summarized as:

  1. We only support latest stable release.

  2. We create new bugfix and feature releases as things progress and not on a fixed schedule.

  3. We support deprecated content for at least a year and a half since its deprecation.

  4. We have no plans on releasing version 2.0.0 anytime soon and are fully commited on making current version of collection work on all supported Sensu Go versions.

Supported releases

As already stated, we only support latest stable version of Sensu Go Ansible Collection. Currently, this means that only latest 1.x.y version is supported.

Once we next major version of collection, we will continue to backport security fixes to previous major version 1 for at least half a year. No new features will be backported.

Release schedule

To get new features and bugfixes to our users as soon as possible, we have no fixed release schedule. Instead, we create a new release after each significant change (bugfix or added feature). We may delay release for a day or two if we have a few thing lined up to reduce the administrative load.

Compatibility

Sensu Go Ansible Collection follows semantic versioning. In short, we guarantee backward compatibility between releases with the same major version number. In practice, this means that if we have a playbook that works with some version of Sensu Go Ansible Collection, it will continue to work with newer versions up until major version changes.

We do not guarantee forward compatibility (we are adding new modules in releases that increment minor version number). Downgrading between patch versions should be safe, but we would advice against it because patch releases can potentially contain important security fixes.