diff --git a/releases/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc b/releases/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc index 5d400b3..2c99fcd 100644 --- a/releases/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc +++ b/releases/modules/ROOT/pages/index.adoc @@ -1,3 +1,45 @@ = Fedora Linux Releases +include::quick-docs::partial$attributes.adoc[] -Content will go here! +== Our release schedule + +Fedora creates two major OS releases every year, targeted for the fourth Tuesday in April and October. +We don't follow a strict "ship on this date!" policy, nor do we wait until every single possible thing is perfect. +Fedora integrates thousands of always-changing upstream packages, and if we stuck to a date no matter what, we'd always ship with serious bugs, and if we attempted to squash every problem before releasing, we'd never ship at all. + +To understand more about the reasoning behind Fedora's process and release life cycle, see the xref:lifecycle.adoc[Release Life Cycle] documentation. + +== Current supported releases + +Fedora provies approximately 13 months of support for each release. +The N-2 release reaches xref:eol.adoc[End of Life] four weeks after Fedora Linux N is released. +See the sidebar for information about the current releases. + +== Development + +Fedora's approach involves two development releases, xref:rawhide.adoc[Rawhide] and xref:branched.adoc[Branched]. +For more details, see the respective pages. + +=== Rawhide + +Continuous rolling development branch. +No releases are ever made directly from Rawhide, and it never freezes. +There is no guarantee of stability. +Rawhide is intended for initial testing of the very latest code under active development. + +* On mirrors: https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide[development/rawhide] +* Repository: xref:quick-docs::repositories.adoc#rawhide[rawhide (unstable)] + +=== Branched + +Development branch for pre-release stabilization. +All Fedora Linux releases are branched from Rawhide at the branch point before going through the Beta and GA (Final) milestones. +For a time between GA and the next branch point, there is no Branched release. +Branched provides continuous daily updates, but with controls to promote stabilization. + +On mirrors: https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/{NEXTVER}[development/{NEXTVER}] (or https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mirrormanager/mirrors/Fedora/development[mirror list]) +Repositories: xref:quick-docs::repositories.adoc#the-fedora-repository[fedora] (stable), xref:quick-docs::repositories.adoc#the-updates-testing-repository[updates-testing] (test updates) + +== Unsupported releases + +See the sidebar or xref:eol.adoc[EOL page].