RHEL/CentOS has a reputation of keeping up zombie software that is long unsupported by upstream. It's their model and their problem, rest of community shouldn't

RHEL/CentOS has a reputation of keeping up zombie software that is long unsupported by upstream. It's their model and their problem, rest of community shouldn't IMHO care. Hardly any projects have resources to keep compatibility with their ten-years-old releases and backport every fix.