Stable branches

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Sisyphus is quite dynamic project which makes it hard to schedule and perform releases based on it. To overcome this system of branches was invented: Sisyphus is regularely literally branched creating a new repository which is then stabilized for a several months. Resulting repository is called a branch and used as a basis for distributives and solutions. After stabilization branches only incorporate security and critical feature fixes.

Current branches

branch/4.0 (Fall 2007)

First long-living branch, resulted in wide range of ALT Linux 4.0 distributions.

branch/4.1 (Spring 2008)

Short-living branch. Planned distributions are ALT Linux 4.1.

branch/5.0 (Fall 2008)

Planned branch.