[ovs-dev] how does bug fix back-porting work in ovs?

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 03:11:42PM +0200, Mauricio Vásquez wrote:
> I would like to know how is the methodology to back-port bug fixes in ovs,
> I ask it because with [1] I noticed that this bug is fixed on branch-2.5
> but there is not any stable release that contains the fix.
> 
> [1] http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2016-April/069579.html

We backport bug fixes at the same time we fix the bug on master.
Periodically, we make releases from maintained branches.  There's
nothing special about the releases: you can always just grab the latest
commit from a given branch.