1 Information for people packaging the Guest Additions for Linux distributions
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3 We strongly recommend that people packaging the Guest Additions for Linux
4 distributions track the latest stable version rather than staying with a given
5 major release number for the life-time of the distribution. The major number
6 is more relevant for the host software (the actual VirtualBox application)
7 than for the Linux Additions, which are developed more continuously.
9 We sometimes have two stable versions at one time - one with more features and
10 a long-term stable version from the previous major release, which has less
11 features but a code base which has had longer to mature. While this is also
12 less relevant for the Additions, you can find the current long-term stable
13 release version number at
14 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/LATEST-STABLE.TXT