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If the current development series release is an RC release, we may
want to choose that over the current stable release. Otherwise, it is
generally best to stick with whatever the current stable release is.
The stable series
For most users just starting out, whatever series is marked stable is the one to
use. This is the major league series. The best and most complete version currently
available. After a development series has reached a sufficient level of quality to
be considered stable, it is promoted to this series and becomes the recommended
version of MariaDB.
After being marked as stable, the MariaDB Foundation has a policy that major
MariaDB version will be well supported with bug and security fixes and
maintenance releases for a period of at least five years. This is regardless of whether
it is the current stable series, or if it is one of the maintenance series. It all depends on
when it first became stable.
The maintenance series
When a series moves from development to stable, whatever series was stable is
moved to the maintenance series. This means that it will still receive bug fixes but it
is no longer the recommended or preferred release of MariaDB. Think of it as the hall
of fameā€”full of great previous releases of MariaDB that, while still excellent, have
been replaced by a new generation. At any given time there may be three, four, or
more MariaDB major versions in the maintenance series.
We'll now go through installing MariaDB for each of the major operating systems.
First Windows, then Mac OS X, then Debian and Ubuntu Linux, then Fedora, Red
Hat, and CentOS Linux, and lastly other Linux distributions.
 
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