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Wine Stable's mantra is to not break currently running applications.<br />
Regressions are a priority to fix and new regressions should not be added.<br />
Thus a patch that fixes ten applications but breaks one application is a bad patch for Stable.

== Scope of this Page ==
These rules are valid for:
* Wine stable versions 1.8.x to 6.0.x
* Stable maintainer: Michael Stefaniuc [[MailTo(mstefani AT SPAMFREE winehq DOT org)]]

== Acceptable Patches for Wine Stable ==
Rules for patches going into Wine Stable:
* It must be first accepted in the Development version (in exceptional cases it can come via Staging).
* It must be tested (in 1-2 released Development or Staging versions).
* It should be small.
* It must fix a real bug in a real application.
* Stubs must get an application to run (not to just crash later) and need a longer testing period in the wild.
* It must fix a build issue, especially on distributions using Wine Stable.
* Translation updates are in scope too.

== Submitting Patches for Wine Stable ==
To mark a patch for inclusion into Stable you can choose between the following methods:
* Set the [https://bugs.winehq.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=CLOSED&product=Wine&query_format=advanced&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=6.0.x "Target Milestone" to 6.0.x] for a bug in bugzilla.
* Or send the Stable maintainer an email with a list of commit IDs to cherry pick.
* Add the Wine-Bug tag to the patch when submitting it to wine-devel.

== Accepted / Queued Patches ==
Here is the list of [https://people.redhat.com/mstefani/wine/stable/ accepted and queued patches] for Wine Stable. 

Or in raw format in git on https://github.com/mstefani/wine-stable

Branches:
;stable
: Accepted patches that will be in the next wine-6.0.x
;queue
: Queued patches for stable
: '''Warning:''' This branch is always '''rebased''' on top of stable

Additional information is kept with git notes in '''stable-notes'''. Github doesn't shows any notes so those need to be accessed via git:
 <nowiki>
git pull <stable-remote> refs/notes/stable-notes
export GIT_NOTES_REF=refs/notes/stable-notes
git log
git show</nowiki>