**Deprecation Strategy for OpenVDB**

OpenVDB is committed to supporting three years of
[VFX Reference Platform](http://www.vfxplatform.com/) and all releases of
Houdini and Maya based on those versions of the platform. The latest supported
year is that in which the VDB version listed matches the major version.

For example, all 6.x versions of OpenVDB support VFX Reference Platform years
2019, 2018 and 2017.

This infers the following support:

* OpenVDB ABI=4, ABI=5 and ABI=6
* C++11 and C++14
* Houdini 16.5, 17.0 and 17.5

All 7.x versions of OpenVDB support VFX Reference Platform years 2020, 2019 and
2018. Support for Houdini 16.5, C++11 and ABI=4 is removed.