When we release a stable (i.e. production grade) release, that means that you can, in good spirit, upgrade your version of Geeklog knowing full well that that version is ready for use on production sites and will be supported. Does that mean we won't release a 1.3.6 beta next week? No, we very well could. Remember the open source mantra of 'release early, release often'. To be perfectly clear, we do not encourage nor support betas or release candidates and they are not to be used on production sites. Those are release merely to get new code into the hands of the impatient and to get help with testing so we can get that code stable.
Hope that clears things up for you.
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