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Comparision of release cadences in the open source community
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Chrome

Release cadence: 4 weeks

Support window: 8 weeks

More info: Chrome Milestone branch support and Speeding Up Chrome's Release Cycle

Fedora

Release cadence: 6 months

Support window: 13 months

More info: Fedora Relase Life Cycle and the diagram in Slide 10 of this deck

Node

Release cadence: 12 months (LTS), 6 months (non-LTS)

Support window: 30 months (LTS only)

More info: Node Releases

Overall trends

Small, frequent major releases --> Breaking changes are typically small and rare

Large, infrequent major releases --> Breaking changes typically occur in every release

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