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# Branch Management
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## Guide
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- New development occurs on the [master branch](https://github.com/coreos/etcd/tree/master)
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- Master branch should always have a green build!
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- Backwards-compatible bug fixes should target the master branch and subsequently be ported to stable branches
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- Once the master branch is ready for release, it will be tagged and become the new stable branch.
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The etcd team has adopted a _rolling release model_ and supports one stable version of etcd.
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### Master branch
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The `master` branch is our development branch. All new features land here first.
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If you want to try new features, pull `master` and play with it. Note that `master` may not be stable because new features may introduce bugs.
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Before the release of the next stable version, feature PRs will be frozen. We will focus on the testing, bug-fix and documentation for one to two weeks.
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### Stable branches
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All branches with prefix `release-` are considered _stable_ branches.
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After every minor release (http://semver.org/), we will have a new stable branch for that release. We will keep fixing the backwards-compatible bugs for the latest stable release, but not previous releases. The _patch_ release, incorporating any bug fixes, will be once every two weeks, given any patches.
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