Staying informed
Exponential has no mailing list named in the sources. These are the documented ways to follow what happens.
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What to follow
| Source | What it tells you | How |
|---|---|---|
| The changelogs | What each 6.0.x release changed | 6.0.14 changelog and the others in doc/changelogs/6.0/ |
| The history chronicle | Month by month what happened in the kernel and its ecosystem | The history of Exponential |
| The ecosystem map | The repositories around the kernel and their changes | The Exponential platform ecosystem |
| GitHub | New issues, pull requests and releases | "Watch" the se7enxweb/exponential repository, or only its releases |
| The commit feed | The latest commits of the kernel | The developers' landing page of the help shows them; the feed is github.com/se7enxweb/exponential/commits/main.atom (settings/exphelp.ini, [CommitFeedSettings]) |
| Packagist | Released versions of every package | the list of the vendor's packages, https://packagist.org/packages/list.json?vendor=se7enxweb |
| The forums | Discussion of releases and plans | share.exponential.earth/forums |
| The roadmap page | What is planned | Roadmap |
Releases and version numbers
- Security fixes are made on
mainand published with the next 6.0.x release; "A published tag is never changed" (SECURITY.md). To get a fix, you upgrade to the newest release. - Only the 6.0 line is supported; 5.x and older are not (
SECURITY.md, "Supported Versions"). - How a site moves to a new release is explained in Update with Git and in How updates work.
A routine that takes ten minutes a month
- Read the release notes of any release since last month.
- Scan the forum's newest threads for problems that match your setup.
- Check whether your site runs the newest 6.0.x release; plan the upgrade if not.
- Note one thing you could contribute: a confirmation of a bug, a translation, a help page.
Related pages
- Joining the community
- How releases happen
- Testing releases
- Writing about a release
- Free documentation: this page is free to copy, translate and improve under the GNU FDL 1.3.
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