In reply to Marcus Tibesar.

Hear, hear. Ending support for a major version that's quite a number of years old may be understandable, though there should always be at least one version that's properly LTS and gets support for a minimum of 5 years (which is far from the case even for 3.7 now), and preferably longer, even if some others released after it do not. But in that case there should be plenty of advance warning, an end-of-support timetable published a long time, I'd say years, in advance and obvious notifications when the date approaches, yet the decision to update or not must remain solely with the webmasters. Don't go the way of Microsoft people!