diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md index e2959f7a6876d3c92debcf7e6ec631e6debdda86..3ff8ff4d3440b3e663c1df1995ef5cfeb6991dfa 100644 --- a/CHANGES.md +++ b/CHANGES.md @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Changes ### Unreleased +* 2021-01-06 - Change in Moodle release support: + For the time being, this plugin is maintained for the most recent LTS release of Moodle as well as the most recent major release of Moodle. + Bugfixes are backported to the LTS release. However, new features and improvements are not necessarily backported to the LTS release. * 2021-01-06 - Improvement: Declare which major stable version of Moodle this plugin supports (see MDL-59562 for details). ### v3.9-r1 diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 188611d86b330ba39477f8c73b5791acf78d8a5d..10e2f50ccd3fe8904287075f8a61bc7c92661787 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -140,11 +140,13 @@ We are always interested to read about your feature proposals or even get a pull Moodle release support ---------------------- -Due to limited resources, this plugin is only maintained for the most recent major release of Moodle. However, previous versions of this plugin which work in legacy major releases of Moodle are still available as-is without any further updates in the Moodle Plugins repository. +Due to limited resources, this plugin is only maintained for the most recent major release of Moodle as well as the most recent LTS release of Moodle. Bugfixes are backported to the LTS release. However, new features and improvements are not necessarily backported to the LTS release. -There may be several weeks after a new major release of Moodle has been published until we can do a compatibility check and fix problems if necessary. If you encounter problems with a new major release of Moodle - or can confirm that this plugin still works with a new major relase - please let us know on Github. +Apart from these maintained releases, previous versions of this plugin which work in legacy major releases of Moodle are still available as-is without any further updates in the Moodle Plugins repository. -If you are running a legacy version of Moodle, but want or need to run the latest version of this plugin, you can get the latest version of the plugin, remove the line starting with $plugin->requires from version.php and use this latest plugin version then on your legacy Moodle. However, please note that you will run this setup completely at your own risk. We can't support this approach in any way and there is a undeniable risk for erratic behavior. +There may be several weeks after a new major release of Moodle has been published until we can do a compatibility check and fix problems if necessary. If you encounter problems with a new major release of Moodle - or can confirm that this plugin still works with a new major release - please let us know on Github. + +If you are running a legacy version of Moodle, but want or need to run the latest version of this plugin, you can get the latest version of the plugin, remove the line starting with $plugin->requires from version.php and use this latest plugin version then on your legacy Moodle. However, please note that you will run this setup completely at your own risk. We can't support this approach in any way and there is an undeniable risk for erratic behavior. Translating this plugin