Latest stable release Decision: How decided? / When next?

[Jouni Malinen]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 05:20:33PM -0700, George S. Lockwood wrote:

> How is the decision to call a particular snapshot the "Latest stable" reached?

Main development happens in one branch (currently 0.5) and at some
point, the development branch is considered to become "stable". At this
point, the following release (e.g., the next 0.5.x release) will end up
being the first "stable" version of the branch and a new development
branch (e.g., 0.6.x) will be used for future development.

Based on release history (see http://hostap.epitest.fi/releases.html),
it looks like a new stable branch has been created every 6-12 months.
0.4.7 started the last stable branch nine months ago, so if past
behavior is followed, 0.5.x is getting quite close to being declared
"stable".

> Presently, the Latest stable release is 0.4.9...is there a comfort
> feel level for 0.5.4 with Named Pipes to be soon elevated to "Latest
> stable"?

0.5.4 will never be called the latest stable release and neither will
0.5.5. 0.5.6 could end up being the first "stable" version from 0.5
branch, but so could 0.5.7 if there is need to do larger changes/fixes
after 0.5.5. There will be a period of new feature development freeze on
0.5 branch before a release is called "stable". This will likely happen
either after 0.5.5 or 0.5.6.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA