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What is different: in addition to quarterly minor releases, we will provide patch releases for N
, N-1
, N-2
versions starting with the upcoming 1.12.0 release. These patch releases would be ad-hoc (as needed) and ideally limited to no more than one per month across each minor version.
What this looks like:
Release 1.11.0 will be superseded by 1.12.0 and receive no patches except as needed under the prior policy.
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Assuming this is a critical bug, you would make the fix on the /develop
branch and back port it onto N, N-1, and N-2 release branches. Following the release of a new minor version, we will create a /support/x.y
branch to use for releasing patch versions.
References
[1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Release+Schedule
[3] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/GEODE/Versioning+and+Branching
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