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From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein)
Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.1.x to 2.2.2-RELEASE
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Date: Sat, 24 May 1997 21:17:29 GMT
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Mouth of the South (mouth@ibm.net) wrote:

: Why does the online handbook still (May 23, 1997) talk about 2.1.7 being
: the stable release, isn't 2.2.2 a stable release?
: 
: John

It's rather stable,just not "-STABLE".
2.1.7.1 is the culmination of the branch currently called -STABLE,
2.2.x being -RELEASE and the pre-release 3.0 being -CURRENT.