| | 1 | = Smartmontools Release Policy = |
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| | 3 | A few words about smartmontools releases: |
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| | 5 | == Sourcecode == |
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| | 7 | We try to provide source code releases X.Y at least two times a year. ''Please note that odd-numbered releases will no longer be considered "experimental" or "unstable"''. |
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| | 9 | Release candidate tarballs may be provided provided prior to the final release. In this case only bugfix or trivial commits are allowed on the SVN trunk until the final release. |
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| | 11 | For each release a SVN tag named [changeset:3189 RELEASE_X_Y] is created (see also [source:/trunk/smartmontools/do_release do_release script]). |
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| | 13 | After a release X.Y the package version number is [changeset:3190 incremented to X.Y+1] on SVN trunk. |
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| | 15 | If important bugs are reported after X.Y is release, we try to provide [changeset:3054 bugfix releases X.Y.1], X.Y.2, ... as soon as possible. These are build from a SVN branch named [source:/branches/RELEASE_5_39_BRANCH RELEASE_X_Y_BRANCH] created from tag [changeset:3044 RELEASE_X_Y]. Such a branch is maintained at least until the next major release. |
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| | 17 | == Binaries == |
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| | 19 | Precompiled packages are only provided for Windows. For other platforms see [wiki:Download#Installprecompiledpackage Download info]. |
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| | 21 | == Drive Database == |
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| | 23 | The drive database file [source:/trunk/smartmontools/drivedb.h drivedb.h] is maintained on trunk. If new features added to drivedb.h are incompatible with the last major release X.Y, a compatible version is provided on a branch named [source:/branches/RELEASE_5_39_DRIVEDB RELEASE_X_Y_DRIVEDB]. Compatible changes from trunk are frequently [log:/branches/RELEASE_5_39_DRIVEDB merged to this branch]. The [source:/trunk/smartmontools/update-smart-drivedb.in update-smart-drivedb] script checks this branch first. |
