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When a stable version is released, the branch become a maintenance branch. This means, a lot of things can not be done into this branch anymore. This is generic definition of a maintenance branch. | When a stable version is released, the branch become a maintenance branch. This means, a lot of things can not be done into this branch anymore. This is generic definition of a maintenance branch. | ||
* A maintenance branch is called x.y.* (* start to 1 and is increased for each new maintenance version). | * A maintenance branch is called x.y.* (* start to 1 and is increased for each new maintenance version). | ||
* Only changes to fix blocking, annoying or security bugs can be done. | * Only changes to fix "blocking", "annoying" or "security" bugs can be done. Bugs making a new feature not available (when feature was never available) must not necessarly be fixed. It 's just a feature not yet ready into this branch, it will be available with next branch. | ||
* There is an exception: We can add backported code of version x.y+1 into a maintenance branch to prepare transition for modules developper, but only if code added is a complete new method or new fonction, with no other change. | |||
= List of past versions = | = List of past versions = | ||