<title>Support</title>
<div align="center"><h2><b>Community Support Policies</b></h2></div>
<div align="center"><h3><b>Effective May 1, 2017</b></h3></div>
<h4>Legacy CryptoAPI Codec</h4>
<ul>
<li>
It will be disabled in all default build configurations.
</li>
<li>
However, it will still be possible to build binaries with it enabled.
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Design-Time Components for Visual Studio</h4>
<ul>
<li>
They will still be built and included in the release packages.
</li>
<li>
However, they will no longer be "officially supported".
</li>
<li>
The mailing lists may still be used to ask questions about them.
</li>
<li>
However, any tickets opened for them will be deleted.
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Release Packages</h4>
<ul>
<li>
Release packages for non-current releases will be archived.
</li>
<li>
Access to archived release packages will be granted on a case-by-case basis.
</li>
</ul>
<div align="center"><h2><b>Mailing Lists</b></h2></div>
<p>
SQLite has an active mailing list and support community and users of
the System.Data.SQLite project available on this web site are encouraged to
use these for support questions.
</p>
<p>
Three separate mailing lists have been established to help support SQLite and
System.Data.SQLite:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-announce">
sqlite-announce</a> - announcements of new releases or significant
developments.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users">
sqlite-users</a> - general user discussion; most postings belong here.
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-dev">
sqlite-dev</a> - developer conversations; for people who have or aspire to
have write permission on the SQLite and/or System.Data.SQLite source code
repositories.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
Most users of SQLite and/or System.Data.SQLite will want to join the
<a href="http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-announce">
sqlite-announce</a> list and many will want to join the
<a href="http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users">
sqlite-users</a> list. The
<a href="http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-dev">
sqlite-dev</a> list is more specialized and appeals to a narrower audience.
Off-site archives of the
<a href="http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users">
sqlite-users</a> list are available at:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users%40sqlite.org/">
https://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users%40sqlite.org/</a>
(<b>old address, before mid-February 2015</b>)
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users%40mailinglists.sqlite.org/">
https://www.mail-archive.com/sqlite-users%40mailinglists.sqlite.org/</a>
(<b>new address, after mid-February 2015</b>)
</li>
<li>
<a href="https://marc.info/?l=sqlite-users&r=1&w=2">
https://marc.info/?l=sqlite-users&r=1&w=2</a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general">
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.db.sqlite.general</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div align="center"><h2><b>Direct E-Mail</b></h2></div>
<p>
Use the mailing list. Please do <b>not</b> send email directly
to the authors of SQLite or System.Data.SQLite unless:
</p>
<ul>
<li>
You have or intend to acquire a
<a href="https://www.sqlite.org/support.html">
professional support contract</a>.
</li>
<li>
You are working on an open source project.
</li>
</ul>
<p>
You are welcomed to use SQLite and System.Data.SQLite in closed source,
proprietary, and/or commercial projects and to ask questions about such use
on the public mailing list. But please do not ask to receive free direct
technical support. The software is free; direct technical support is not.
</p>