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Difference between _WEEKLY and _STABLE wrt security

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Difference between _WEEKLY and _STABLE wrt security

by Faris Raouf - Monday, May 18, 2009, 9:53 PM

I'm a little confused. I've read the docs and searched the forums, but I'm still not clear on this.

Basically I'm wondering what the difference is between MOODLE_19_STABLE and MOODLE_19_WEEKLY when it comes to CVS checkouts?

I originally checked out MOODLE_19_STABLE using CVS and continue to update it using cvs update -dP and as far as I'm aware from the resulting build dates this is giving me the latest version available including security fixes (and bug fixes) that are available at the time i do the update.

Or is it? Should I be using the weekly one instead? Security is very important and I don't want to have got this wrong!

Thanks,

Faris.

Re: Difference between _WEEKLY and _STABLE wrt security

by Dan Poltawski - Saturday, May 23, 2009, 5:37 PM

Hi,

The weekly tag goes through QA review and we'd recommend using this to prevent problems with your site caused by regressions. But it is in fact just the same as 19_STABLE after QA review (the naming is unfortunate, as we started with 19_STABLE before introducing the weeklies, the weeklies should in fact be more stable). See the orginal forum thread about this here

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