| Well, I did a little research that may corroborate that claim...
Apple released the final "Security Update" (i.e. non-QT, non-iTues etc) for 10.2.8 on 25 Jan 2005. 10.4 (the N+2 release, if you will) was released 29 Apr 2005. Also, with Panther, Apple released the final security update on 14 Nov 2007. 10.5 was released the prior month.
So, we could be in a similar situation... Snow Leopard was released last month, the security update just came out that supported the N-2 release (Tiger) and that may be it on that.
hmmm.....
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On Sep 16, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Todd Heberlein wrote: Does anyone know, or can point me in the right direction to find
out, how long Apple provides security patches for a system? The new
one that came out still patches 10.4.11 so that's good, but I'd like
to know when I can give 10.4 the "unsupported and unauthorized"
rubber stamp.
I think Apple's official policy is that they have no official policy on this. Unofficially, I've heard they they support 10.x and 10.(x-1), so now that 10.6 is out, this means just 10.6 and 10.5. But I've seen them bend this "rule of thumb" on security relevant patches. If you do find anything "official", please post it to the list. Todd
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