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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/16/2015 2:51 AM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 06:55:11PM -0500, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> Fingers crossed but the rc2 noise has been fairly low so if no critical
>> bugs are reported between now and Thanksgiving weekend, I'll roll out
>> the stable release sometime that weekend.  If you have any last minute
>> bug fixes, documentation changes, or library improvements to make, now
>> is the time.  I'll give everyone a 24hr notice before I tag the source,
>> doc, library, and translation repos with 4.0.0 when I roll out the
>> release.  From there we can branch if the need be.  Hopefully one of
>> things we will have to be thankful for this Thanksgiving holiday is a
>> new KiCad stable release.
> 
> Ok, may I delete this:
> 
>> Important: The current KiCad stable builds have not been updated
>> since 2013. As such they are missing many new features that have been
>> added to KiCad. It is suggested that you install the unstable nightly
>> builds which occasionally introduce new bugs, but are updated frequently
>> and generally stable.
> 
> from here:
> 
> http://docs.kicad-pcb.org/en/getting_started_in_kicad.html
> 

Technically this will always be true.  The nightly builds will have the
new features not in the stable release per our stable release policy[1].
 Immediately after a stable release there wont be much different between
the stable release and the development branch.  As time goes on, this
will be less and less so.  This statement should probably be more generic:

Note:  KiCad stable releases occur periodically per the "KiCad Stable
Release Policy".  New features are continually being added to the
development branch.  If you would like to take advantage of these new
features and help out by testing them, please download the latest
nightly build package for your platform.  Nightly builds may introduce
bugs but it is the goal of the KiCad Development Team to keep the
development branch as usable as possible during new feature development.

Please include the links to the stable release policy and the nightly
build page.

Thanks,

Wayne

[1]:
http://ci.kicad-pcb.org/job/kicad-doxygen/ws/Documentation/doxygen/html/md_Documentation_development_stable-release-policy.html