Monday 15 August 2005 by kusor

update: The implicit, unmentioned assumption in this context is that you are brave enough to run your sites from subversion at all. This is obviously not recommended for end-users, but only for those that want to keep close to what the developers doing. Also see this follow-up post.

Yes guys, we still have to arrange some things after this period of intensive work, in order to have the house clean for the next days/months/years of Textpattern development.

Many of us are using http://svn.textpattern.com/current/ to update our textpattern installs using subversion, which usually contains the bleeding edge version of the thing. Now that we’ve got a stable release – and the expected plans to continue the development process – seems logical to offer a way to point your installs to the stable releases of Textpattern.

So, from now, you can allways find the latest stable version of the Textpattern 4.0.x version at http://svn.textpattern.com/stable/4.0/. This means two things:

  • You can point your working copies to http://svn.textpattern.com/stable/4.0/ in order to keep your production installs updated with the successive upgrades of this Textpattern branch. The successive versions 4.0.1, 4.0.2 etc. will be made from this branch. Changes that are checked into this branch will focus on fixing bugs while maintaining backwards-compatibility as best as possible.
  • If you’re using http://svn.textpattern.com/current/ to update your working copy, you must relocate that copy and point it to http://svn.textpattern.com/stable/4.0/. In order to do this, simply go to the path where your working copy is located and type:

svn switch http://svn.textpattern.com/stable/4.0