On Feb 15th, I unmaintained all Drupal 5 support on modules where I'm the node owner. I did it on purpose too, even though I know the supposed havoc, disruption, and calamity it causes with the update status module. It's a personal time management issue for me - it's not because I don't like your face or the way you asked me to care. It's not fair to keep 5.x support checked off and give people the false illusion that if they file a 5.x bug, I'll do anything about it. I just don't have time to support all possible versions of the 50 or so modules I either maintain, co-maintain, or patch regularly, and all the other Drupal stuff I do.

Each project page has its own "View all releases" link where all of those 5.x releases are still available. I have not, in the words of one dramatic complainer, "take[en] this module away from the Drupal 5 community." Anyone who doesn't like it should go ahead and look at upgrading your site to Drupal 6, because Drupal 7 will be out this year and I'm in a forward-looking state.

Moreover, running an unsupported module does not mean that it no longer works, or that all of a sudden its full of bugs. Keep using it on your Drupal 5 installation as long as you want. Visit the front page of the module's project page and click "View all releases" (it has the feed icon next to it) to see all the old releases are still there. So when you read this and find out that I don't care about your update status notices for old versions of Drupal, perhaps you'll decide maybe I'm not the only one and you'll find others like me, and that it's time to upgrade your site.

If you have gone so far as to code a bunch of custom modules that you never shared with the rest of drupal.org and you "have no upgrade path", well that's what you get for not sharing with the rest of us. You cannot use open source in a bubble by yourself and be successful. You must not only share, but get others to use your module too so they have a shared interest in getting it upgraded as Drupal grows.

Now go to admin/logs/updates/settings for your update status module and set "Warn if out of date" to Never for whatever modules have been unsupported for your install. By navigation, that is Administer - Logs - Status Report - Settings tab. That feature was added by merlinofchaos in 5.x-1.1.

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