• New development occurs on the .
• Backwards-compatible bug fixes should target the master branch and subsequently be ported to stable branches.

The branch is our development branch. All new features land here first.

Before the release of the next stable version, feature PRs will be frozen. A release manager will be assigned to major/minor version and will lead the etcd community in test, bug-fix and documentation of the release for one to two weeks.

Stable branches

After every minor release (,) we will have a new stable branch for that release, managed by a patch release manager. We will keep fixing the backwards-compatible bugs for the latest two stable releases. A patch release to each supported release branch, incorporating any bug fixes, will be once every two weeks, given any patches.