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You can of course see the latest updates for all OSX OS at their respective support pages, even past the time when they are "actively in support" 10.5, 10.6, 10.7 As of September 2012 (after Mountain Lion has been out for more than a month), the support for 10.5 isn't yet removed from the Support Sitemap so we are in a window where four major versions of the OS are still supported. As of May 2012, this includes three major versions. The Apple Support Sitemap - This answers your question about the definitive list of actively supported OS.Whenever I need to know what's supported now, I go to the index of what Apple Care covers (since AppleCare is the support wing that maintains knowledge base articles, answers questions, etc.) I'm sure Apple has a policy, but it's clearly not released to the public and probably gets re-evaluated constantly based on many factors. So, knowing a product's expected support lifecycle (and, especially, if it has already expired) is critical to continuing to maintain compliance with this control.ĭoes Apple provide this information anywhere online for the general public? What versions are currently supported (current version being Lion), and how long (presuming no change to the policy) will they continue to be supported?
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For systems running OS's that are beyond their support lifecycle, we cannot be reliably expected to correct discovered vulnerabilities because the vendor will no longer supply patches. identifies, reports, and corrects information system flaws". The National Institute of Standards and Technology of the Department of Commerce of the United States of America states in this document: NIST SP 800-53, control SI-02 (Flaw Remediation) that there are requirements that (among other things) "The organization. My concern here is primarily from a security standpoint. Further confounding the issue are some relatively recent posts claiming they still receive security updates for versions as old as 10.2. Does Apple have a policy regarding how long they will continue to release and support security fixes for each OS X release? I've looked around the Internet, and found some forum posts that claim "only for the current, and most recent previous, versions" but none appear to have an official reference.