The Apache Software Foundation has announced that this is the final release of the 1.3 branch and only critical security fixes will be available from now on.
Apache 1.3 was first released in June 1998 back before Microsoft Windows 98 came out. The Apache 2 branch has now been out for 10 years and had many benefits over 1.3 on release.
Even with the benefits and stability offered by the Apache 2 branch, 1.3 has still been heavily used over the past 10 years despite the case for preferring it to version 2 getting progressively weaker. With this announcement we may see more people finally take the step of transferring to the Apache 2 branch, a change that is normally pain free and see some volunteer time freed up from supporting and maintaining what had essentially become a legacy version of the web server, giving them more time to spend on newer and more interesting stuff.
