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Versions
Current Status
There are 3 versions currently supported:
- v0.14.x - the current LTS (long term support) release. This version will be supported until mid 2016 when the next LTS release is due.
- v0.15.x - the current release, will be supported until 0.16 comes out.
- trunk - the current development version (will become 0.16).
Fixes are almost always committed to trunk before landing in other branches, you can find a list of the currently pending fixes here.
Here is the latest release notes (the version shown may not have been released yet): v0.14.x NEWS, v0.15.x NEWS, trunk NEWS.
Compatibility
Versions older than 0.14 are not supported. Please complain to your distributor for not updating a package with known bugs and vulnerabilities (more info here: wiki/Packaging).
You can mix versions between the clients and servers, as long as they are reasonably up to date:
- v0.14.x is compatible with versions 0.7.8 onwards. (it may or may not work with earlier versions)
- v0.15.x is compatible with versions 0.12.6 onwards.
- trunk will be compatible with 0.14.x onwards (it may or may not be compatible with earlier versions)
Binaries
You can find binaries for tagged versions (currently 0.14 and 0.15) here:
http://xpra.org/dists/
You may find beta builds of any branch or trunk here:
http://xpra.org/beta/
Release Schedule
The release schedule varies, versions are shipped when they are ready...
That said, the delay between 0.14 and 0.15 was far too long, we are trying to target a 3 months release cycle.
Release Process
- development phase: roughly 2 months
- ticket review and planning: updating the new milestone page
- code refactoring and cleanups early
- beta builds
- run automated tests
- stabilisation phase: roughly 1 month, including:
- updating the OSX and win32 builds to the latest versions supported (ie: ffmpeg, pillow, etc..)
- update patches with new offsets
- check profiling results for regressions (see #797)
- add new tests (see #847, #177, #660)
- run with "-d all" and look for exceptions, look for idle events with out any clients connected
- test old the oldest client version supported
- whitepsace / tabspace cleanup
- tagging the version in the repository
- release:
- add to wiki/News page
- re-assign unfinished tickets to a later milestone
- update wiki/Source and also this page