It points to a certain point, which only means that Apple wont risk its user’s security. The update was about the security and updates before 10.5.9 were also mostly for security.
The last update provided for this operating system was on Jwhere Apple has released macOS Mavericks 10.9.5. MacOS Mavericks is the successor of Mountain Lion was succeeded by Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite. Apple even offered free upgrades for a lifetime even for users who were still using Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It was the second operating system by Apple which was released on the Mac App Store. As well as they have started to name them macOS instead of old Mac OS X. Apple has started to distribute its operating system for free. However, the successor of Mac OS Mountain Lion was the start of macOS. From Mac OS X Puma till Mac OS X Mountain Lion all of them were purchase-able. OS X Mavericks was the first OS X major release that was free to upgrade. It was announced on Jat WWDC 2013 and was released on October 22, 2013. Mac OS X 10.9 is the tenth major release of the OS X desktop and server operating systems. This powerful OS with a reliable UNIX platform with over 200 new features including different applications like maps, iBooks, and many more.