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Linux release model (1)
+
Linux release model
- The old model:
-
-
- -
- Each stable release had even second component. Bug fixes and
- minor features in stable releases with third component
- incremented (e.g. 2.4.27)
-
- -
- Major development done separately, resulting in series of
- unstable releases with odd second component (e.g. 2.5.50)
-
- -
- After a year or two, development resulted in a new stable
- release
-
- -
- Problem: users waited years for new features, and then got many
- more changes all at once. Particularly bad in the 2.4-2.6
- transition.
-
-
-
-
-
-
Linux release model (2)
-
- The new model:
+ Since ~2004:
- Each 2.6.x release has stable update branch; releases
- numbered 2.6.x.y
+ Each 2.6.x and 3.x release has a stable
+ update branch; releases numbered 2.6.x.y
+ and 3.x.y
-
Usually closed shortly after next stable release, but may
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- Linux 3.0 doesn't change this, except that x is now
- the second component and y is the third
-