ANNOUNCE: thunar 1.1.4 released

[Duke Normandin]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Nick Schermer wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl at ml1.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
> >
> >> thunar 1.1.4 is now available for download from
> >>
> >>   http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/1.1/Thunar-1.1.4.tar.bz2
> >>   http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/1.1/Thunar-1.1.4.tar.bz2.md5
> >>   http://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/1.1/Thunar-1.1.4.tar.bz2.sha1
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > I'm new to Linux and of course Xubuntu - but not *nix. So I'm
> > wondering whether or not I should re-act to all these "goodies"
> > announcements that are appearing on this list lately, or will the
> > Synaptic Package Manager soon kick in with these upgrades?
>
> All the 'development' releases you see on the list (odd minor number)
> are made for test users and packagers to find bugs faster, while in
> the old days a tester needed to build from the development sources
> (git, svn) which was a time consuming job.
>
> Lately you see a lot announcements because we're feature complete for
> Xfce 4.8 and are working towards the first preview release of Xfce
> 4.8.
>
> If you use Xfce 4.6 from your distro, you can ignore the messages (or
> read what will be new in 4.8) and continue the use the packages
> supplied by your distro. However, hopefully you will start using the
> development releases because you want to use the new features asap, so
> Xfce gets more test users, more bug reports and less bugs in final
> releases ;-).

Would you characterize the "development releases" as "bleeding edge"
or "stable"? IOW, how likely is it to hose my Linux partition - my
favorite at the moment. :)
-- 
Duke