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+Gluster releases are separated into major and minor releases. Major releases typically contain newer functionality (in addition to bug fixes) and minor releases improve the stability of a major releases by providing bug fixes that are found or reported against them.
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+Major releases are made once every 1 year and receive minor updates for the next 12 months, after which they are no longer maintained (or termed EOL (End-Of-Life)).
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+**NOTE:**
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+From Gluster 10 major release, the release cycle for major releases is changed from 6 months to 1 year. Minor releases will follow every alternate month for a period of 12 months.
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+Like wise minor releases of the previous major version will happen every three months.
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+Detailed release schedule [here](https://www.gluster.org/release-schedule/)
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 Release Notes
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 ### GlusterFS seLinux release notes