stable vs. latest

[Andrew Borodin]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 15:19:11 -0500 Felix Miata wrote:
> Last Debian, Fedora & *buntu releases had 4.8.x. Current Gentoo is 4.8.7.
> Mageia 3 is about to be released with 4.8.7. So, why does the stable/4.8.1.x
> branch even exist?

There is no stable branch anymore. 4.8.1.7 was the last release in 4.8.1.x
branch. 4.8.1-stable and master branches have more and more differences, and
patch backporting from master to stable and vice versa becomes more and more
hardly. We try make stability in master as much as possible.

-- 
Andrew