Reasons to upgrade from V7R1 to V7R2, V7R3

I need to create a document for my manager which will be sent to our 3rd party vendors which have us currently stuck on V7R1.
I'm gathering the posts from the last several weeks.
Does anyone have a link or post on the V7R1 SSL cipher issue?
Any other negatives?
Is there a list or link for known issues with V7R2 or V7R3 (products no longer working)?
And links on the positives, new functionality?

1) IBM announces end of support for IBM i 7.1. April 30, 2018
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/0/897/ENUS917-080/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en

2) Effective December 31, 2017, IBM will no longer provide fixes for the following IBM Toolbox for Java 6 for releases 7.1 and 7.2 options:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/IBM%20i%20Technology%20Updates/page/Java%20on%20IBM%20i

3) IBM announces 7.1 will no longer be PCI compliant after December 31, 2017
On Dec 31, 2017, the Apache 2.2 server that is delivered with IBM i HTTP Server (5770DG1) on i 7.1 will be going out of support. No CVE fix will be delivered after that. To insure you remain on a fully support and compliant web server you need to consider moving to IBM i 7.2 or higher.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/IBM%20i%20Technology%20Updates/page/PCI%20Compliance


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