Releases basically follow Ubuntu's scheme (you might have guessed that from the latest version 14.04), that is, twice a year.
There is no special policy regarding _versions of software_ in master but I wouldn't say you can find lots of alpha/beta versions of packges there. You might want to check pull requests closed recently to get an idea of what kind of software updates happens in master: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pulls?direction=desc&page=1&sort=created&state=closed . There are also updates to NixOS itself in master which also can break something, but you are somewhat protected because those changes propagate to the unstable channel only if all the tests (there are quite a few) succeed. Anyway, I don't think you want to have beta software on production systems, right? So running stable in production and bleeding edge on your desktop, you should be fine. -- Кирилл Елагин On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:09 PM, 胡雨軒 <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Кирилл for your reply. > > Would you know what's the update pace of stable channels? Actually, I'm a > bit afraid cuz unstable channel is said not to be used for production > systems. What kind of software versions are put in? alpha, beta, or > releases? If the unstable channel contain the newest releases, it's OK for > me ;-) but if there are somethinf like beta, it may be difficult to survive > in daily life ~ > > Peter 胡雨軒 >
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