The 4.3 tree is pretty firmly frozen now and we expect to be releasing it fairly soon. In the meantime, to allow development work in Xen 4.4 to start, we have branched. Work on the release of Xen 4.3 (and, after 4.3''s release, future stable and security updates) will take place on the branch "staging-4.3" in xen.git, and the corresponding push-gate-tested branch "stable-4.3". The branch "staging" in xen.git is now fully open for development intended for Xen 4.4, and its changes will (after the push gate tests) appear in "master. Ian.
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:> The 4.3 tree is pretty firmly frozen now and we expect to be releasing > it fairly soon. In the meantime, to allow development work in Xen 4.4 > to start, we have branched.Just so everyone''s aware, "fairly soon" at this point is expected to be next Tuesday, 9 July. The main reason for the delay is for press coverage: 4 July is a major holiday in the US, and so releasing tomorrow, as originally scheduled, would have limited the press uptake. Branching now means this won''t have an impact on 4.4 development. Comments always welcome. -George
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:> The 4.3 tree is pretty firmly frozen now and we expect to be releasing > it fairly soon. In the meantime, to allow development work in Xen 4.4 > to start, we have branched. > > Work on the release of Xen 4.3 (and, after 4.3''s release, future > stable and security updates) will take place on the branch > "staging-4.3" in xen.git, and the corresponding push-gate-tested > branch "stable-4.3". > > The branch "staging" in xen.git is now fully open for development > intended for Xen 4.4, and its changes will (after the push gate tests) > appear in "master.Will there be mercurial repo for 4.3 release like "xen-4.3-testing.hg"? Shakeel