> This means that if (in five years) you find an archive that you can't open without TrueCrypt (and you uninstalled it etc) you'll still be easily able to find

> This means that if (in five years) you find an archive that you can't open without TrueCrypt (and you uninstalled it etc) you'll still be easily able to find a signed version that will decrypt it for you. That still doesn't seem to answer the point. The differences between 7.1* and the questionable 7.2 are exclusively limited to what was ripped out. In 5 years, 7.1 and 7.2 will likely work precisely the same in terms of decryption. If a glibc update or similar breaks 7.1, it'll likely break 7.2. Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my first comment, but fundamentally it seems like a silly argument to make to suggest that distributing a new release for some measure of future proofing readability is necessary. Outside "don't use this, it's broken," I can't really see "this will still work in 5 years' time" as a valid reason.