EPEL 7 proftp package only outdated version available 1.3.5e

package-management yum epel proftpd

Im a curious why there is no new version for the epel-x86_64 ftp server package proftp in the epel 7 repo:

https://centos.pkgs.org/7/epel-x86_64/proftpd-1.3.5e-10.el7.x86_64.rpm.html

There is only verion 1.3.5e avaiable from 09/Apr/2017. The latest version is 1.3.7a is 21/Jul/2020.

Im am Using Amazon Linux 2 with proftp to host a ftp server.

What can I do beside manully compiling it? I want to update proftp via yum.


Solution 1:

Enterprise Linux distributions are not designed to be bleeding edge, but to provide long term stability and support of all components they ship.

Necessary security updates (and sometimes new features) get backported rather upgrading to a newer upstream version with new features.

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/backporting

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