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Yes, the difference is the latter means "it is no longer maintained", and the former is "they claim to be maintaining it but everyone knows it's not really being maintained".

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in theory "maintenance mode" should mean that they still deal with security issues and "no longer maintained" that they don't even do that anymore...

unless a security issue is reported it does feel very much the same...

"Critical security fixes may be evaluated on a case-by-case basis" didn't exactly give much confidence that they'd even be doing that.

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