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The regular Samba release cycle intends a new |
The regular Samba release cycle intends a new release series |
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every nine month. Each release series |
every nine month. Each release series then enters into maintenance mode |
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when the next major release |
when the next major release version comes out. Maintenance mode means that only |
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severe bugs and security issues will be |
severe bugs and security issues will be addressed. For your convenience, |
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the next to last series will be turned into a security fixes only mode. |
the next to last series will be turned into a security fixes only mode. |
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'''Example:''' |
'''Example:''' |
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If 3.6 is the current release series, 3.5 |
If 3.6 is the current release series, then 3.5 would be in maintenance mode, |
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3.4 in the security fixes only mode and the |
3.4 would be in the security fixes only mode, and finally the support of 3.3 would be |
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stopped with the release |
stopped with the release of 3.6.0. |
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Each series can have any number of desired minor release. |
Each series can have any number of desired minor release. |
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Revision as of 02:36, 31 October 2012
The regular Samba release cycle intends a new release series every nine month. Each release series then enters into maintenance mode when the next major release version comes out. Maintenance mode means that only severe bugs and security issues will be addressed. For your convenience, the next to last series will be turned into a security fixes only mode.
That means, a series is
- nine months fully supported,
- another nine months in the maintenance mode,
- nine months in the security fixes only mode.
In total, each series is maintained for a period of approximately 27 months.
Example:
If 3.6 is the current release series, then 3.5 would be in maintenance mode, 3.4 would be in the security fixes only mode, and finally the support of 3.3 would be stopped with the release of 3.6.0.
Each series can have any number of desired minor release. These will be released every 6 weeks.
- Release Planning for Samba 3.0 - discontinued
- Release Planning for Samba 3.2 - discontinued
- Release Planning for Samba 3.3 - discontinued
- Release Planning for Samba 3.4 - security fixes only
- Release Planning for Samba 3.5 - maintenance mode
- Release Planning for Samba 3.6 - current series
- Release Planning for Samba 4.0 - upcoming release series