[csw-announce] Stable Release 2007-01 released

[Ihsan Dogan]

We are pleased to announce that the 2007-01 stable release has been
delivered.

The “stable” tree is a collection of software packages that have all
been previously released to the public and have no open bugs filed
against them.  The Blastwave Software Stack ( simply “the stack” ) is
broken into three main trees of software packages.   The first tree is
called “unstable” and it changes frequently.  Software packages are
continually being updated and released to the public via the “unstable”
tree.  The next tree is called “stable” and it will only change after
release engineering has checked and reviewed all bugs filed against all
software packages.  There is also an internal tree simply called
“testing” and it is used for QA processes before a package enters the
“unstable” tree.  Our current release manager is James Lee and he works
closely with numerous others to ensure that only qualified software may
enter the “stable” tree.  The “stable” tree will change only when a
complete release is ready.  At most this will be four times a year,
depending on various factors.

Each software tree has many branches.  There exists a distinct branch
for the x86 ( 32-bit Intel Pentium, Pentium Pro, Celeron & Centrino and
AMD Celeron & Athlon etc. etc. ) and this x86 branch also includes
software for the 64-bit AMD Opteron processors.  The Sparc branch is
also on each release tree and it covers the sun4m ( HyperSparc, ROSS
Sparc variants ) as well as 64-bit sun4u variations. Each of these
architecture branches covers the various versions of production Solaris
as well as beta release Solaris Nevada or Solaris Express.  This
includes the Solaris Express Community Release also but we can only
truely say that we “support” the production grade releases of Solaris 8,
Solaris 9 and Solaris 10.  The Solaris ABI ( Application Binary
Interface ) assures users of Solaris that any application which is well
behaved on Solaris 8 will also be well behaved on Solaris 9 and Solaris
10.   This is the “golden rule” of Solaris: any application that runs on
a currently shipping edition of Solaris will also run on any other
shipping edition of Solaris.

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how to build, maintain, install and distribute open source software to
the Solaris world.

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