Releases Support - Forest Documentation

Introduction

Each project using Forest needs a minimal maintenance of the agent dependency installed since day one. Such maintenance will ensure the best possible experience with the platform: new features, performance improvements, reactive support, and so on. In order to give more visibility to our developers community, about agent usability and support in the future, you will find, in the section below, the important lifecycle dates per agent stack and versions.

Definitions

Before jumping into your favorite stack tab, you’ll find below the detailed definition of the agent lifecycle dates:

Date	Definition
Initial Release	It marks the date of the official release of a new agent major version, and will, as a consequence, engage Forest on a minimal 18 months period guaranty to keep the agent features 100% compatible with the platform, to provide maintenance, troubleshooting or support, to fix defects, bugs and vulnerabilities.
End-of-Support	At this date, Forest will no longer provide maintenance, troubleshooting or support, and will no longer fix defects, bugs or vulnerabilities.
End-of-Life	At this date, Forest will not guarantee the agent will be usable. It is very likely that your agent integration will break your admin panel, as we will start removing some legacy features support on our platform.

Releases information per stack

Express Sequelize

A new agent generation has been released to integrate with Node.js projects. The only way to keep your Forest project running in the future will be to migrate from the agent v9 to the new Node.js agent. Please follow the dedicated migration guide.

Version	Initial Release	Alive	Active Support	End-of-Support	End-of-Life	Lifetime
v9	2022-10-09	🟢	🟢	-	-	-
v8	2021-07-19	🔴	🔴	2023-12-31	2024-06-30	~3 years
v7	2021-02-22	🔴	🔴	2023-06-30	2023-12-31	~3 years
v6	2020-03-17	🔴	🔴	2022-12-31	2023-06-30	~3.5 years
v5	2019-10-31	🔴	🔴	2022-06-30	2023-06-30	~3.5 years
v4	2019-10-04	🔴	🔴	2022-06-30	2022-12-31	~3 years
v3	2019-04-22	🔴	🔴	2022-06-30	2022-12-31	~3.5 years
v2	2017-11-30	🔴	🔴	2022-06-30	2022-12-31	~5 years
v1	2016-02-06	🔴	🔴	2022-06-30	2022-12-31	~7 years

Express Mongoose

Version	Initial Release	Alive	Active Support	End-of-Support	End-of-Life	Lifetime
v9	2022-10-09	🟢	🟢	-	-	-
v8	2021-07-19	🔴	🔴	2023-12-31	2024-06-30	~3 years
v7	2021-02-22	🔴	🔴	2023-06-30	2023-12-31	~3 years
v6	2020-03-17	🔴	🔴	2022-12-31	2023-06-30	~3.5 years
v5	2019-10-31	🔴	🔴	2022-06-30	2023-06-30	~3.5 years
v4	2019-10-04	🔴	🔴	2022-06-30	2022-12-31	~3 years
v3	2019-04-22	🔴	🔴	2022-06-30	2022-12-31	~3.5 years
v2	2017-11-30	🔴	🔴	2022-06-30	2022-12-31	~5 years
v1	2016-02-06	🔴	🔴	2022-06-30	2022-12-31	~7 years

Django

A new agent generation has been released to integrate with Django projects. The only way to keep your Forest project running in 2025 will be to migrate from the legacy agent to the new Python agent. Please follow the dedicated migration guide.

Version	Initial Release	Alive	Active Support	End-of-Support	End-of-Life	Lifetime
v1	2021-08-13	🟠	🔴	2024-06-30	2024-12-31	~3.5 years

Laravel

A new agent generation has been released to integrate with Laravel projects. The only way to keep your Forest project running in 2025 will be to migrate from the legacy agent to the new PHP agent. Please follow the dedicated migration guide.

Version	Initial Release	Alive	Active Support	End-of-Support	End-of-Life	Lifetime
v1	2022-04-15	🟠	🔴	2024-06-30	2024-12-31	~2.5 years

​Introduction

​Definitions

​Releases information per stack

​Express Sequelize

​Express Mongoose

​Django

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