Long Term Support Certified Firmware (LTS-C) Releases

There may be a situation that the HSM firmware from an STS release may need to be certified (to, for example, provide early certification on new products or features). In this case, although most of the release is under the STS support, the firmware would be certified and therefore under LTS support. This is referred to as LTS-C (LTS-Certified) firmware release.

This provides a long term stable certified release with future updates that would be re-certified if possible. Patching will be released in severe cases to address critical OSS CVEs, major VUL issues or essential support requirements. Release support and patches are provided for the duration of the certification length or for the time specified at release of the firmware.

Connect and Client-side support for LTS-C releases is provided by all active LTS release.