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            header2="All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance" 
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        <item type="paragraph">📅 Last update on 2025-08-08</item>
       
        
        <item type="header2" class="article-title">What is Nettle?</item>
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        <item type="header2" class="article-title">The entire lifecycle of Nettle</item>

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            The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Nettle. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
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        <item type="paragraph">Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Nettle (Niels Moeller)</item>
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                    <second>3.10.2</second>
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                    <first>Number of releases</first>
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