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The release process is in place to help follow the ASF guidelines for release management.

IMPORTANT: All source distributions must be built with autoconf v2.68 or later, and libtool v2.4 or later. Fedora Core 15 provides such a build environment for example.

Branches

All public releases are cut from a release branch, the current release branch is 2.0.x, and all releases have even version numbering. Development (non-public) releases are cut from the trunk, and have odd version numbering. All odd releases should be considered unstable, and not for GA.

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A new release candidate should be uploaded into a "personal" area, typically something like http://people.apache.org/~someuser/^{Image Removed}. Once available, a vote should be started on the dev@trafficserver.apache.org mailing list, and run for 72 hours. After the vote has passed, the artifact can be moved from the personal area to the distribution servers (see next section).

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