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channel](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=sway&uio=d4) upfront and discuss
your plans.
## Release Cycle
There are three stages of a sway release. Say the current stable version is
0.7. The master branch of sway is working towards becoming the 0.8 release. 0.8
will go through each of these three stages:
**In development**: during this time 0.8 lives in the master branch and is
considered unstable. All pull requests merged during this time will land in sway
0.8.
**Release candidate**: at some point (usually when development is fairly quiet),
@SirCmpwn will announce an upcoming release candidate (often 2 weeks in
advance). When the two weeks are up, a branch is cut (i.e. 0.8-rc1) and from
that point only bugfix pull requests land in this branch. Each morning, if
bugfixes landed in 0.8 during the previous day, a new RC is cut. During the RC
phase, more adventurous users are encouraged to upgrade and start looking for
and reporting bugs (especially in new features).
**Stable release**: when no substantial changes are merged into an RC for 1
week, it's released as a new stable version of Sway. At this point, all users
are encouraged to upgrade.
## Pull Requests
If you already have your own pull request habits, feel free to use them. If you