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h3. Introduction Backporting and the maintenance of a stable release begins when a new "stable Ceph release":http://ceph.com/docs/master/releases is published. Commits from the master branch are cherry-picked to the stable branch and run through integration and upgrade tests. After a few weeks a "point release":http://ceph.com/docs/master/releases is published. This repeats until the "lifetime of the stable release":http://ceph.com/docs/master/releases comes to an end. The following describes in detail and in chronological order, the steps to follow for backporting and maintaining stable releases. h3. Add a new stable release [[HOWTO start backporting a stable release]] h3. Add a new point release [[HOWTO start working on a new point release]] h3. Prepare a new point release [[HOWTO update the inventory]] [[HOWTO summarize test results]] [[HOWTO backport commits]] [[HOWTO create an integration branch]] [[HOWTO describe a test result]] [[HOWTO synchronize pull requests from different repositories]] h3. Retire a stable release [[HOWTO retire a stable release]]