FYI the new router module (https://github.com/angular/router) is going to be a separate project, with semver'ed releases. It'll expose bindings for both Angular 1.x and Angular 2, but it isn't bound to the Angular release cycle.
The official word[1] from the Angular team now is that they will support it as long as there is still a significant number of companies using it - it will be longer than the original 1.5 years after the release of 2.0 mentioned.
[1] Mentioned in the ng-conf keynote IIRC, but this was also told to me directly by one of the Angular core team members when I spoke with him today.
Prob not from Google/Angular themselves. Maybe someone will be willing to maintain a 1.x branch for support $ ala what some people did for Rails 2.9.2+