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Fedora's "stable release updates vision"

Fedora's "stable release updates vision"
[Distributions] Posted Mar 12, 2010 14:59 UTC (Fri) by corbet

The Fedora board has, in response to ongoing discussions about updates to its releases (as covered in the March 11 Weekly Edition), adopted a "vision statement" on how Fedora releases should be maintained. "Stable releases should provide a consistent user experience throughout the lifecycle, and only fix bugs and security issues. Stable releases should not be used for tracking upstream version closely when this is likely to change the user experience beyond fixing bugs and security issues."

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