Why new software is only in the upcoming/current release?

[alefattorini (Alessio Fattorini)]

@giacomo

There are 2 main reasons:

• once 7.6 is out, 7.5 is dead: we are using the concept of “rolling release”, so old releases should be always updated to latest one. Also, old releases will not get any update (including security fixes from upstream)
• supporting the same software on multiple platforms quickly become a mess

Very good answer. We already know them very well but new people often don’t understand those dev processes. We should create a FAQ from this answer.