# Stable extra-version cherry-pick policy

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/stable-extra-version-cherry-pick-policy/204861
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [September 30, 2021, 12:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stable-extra-version-cherry-pick-policy/204861 "2021-09-30T12:35:11Z")
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### Author: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2021, 2:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stable-extra-version-cherry-pick-policy/204861/2 "2021-09-30T14:48:03Z")

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Only security commits/bugs are backported into stable, with the exception being, in the first weeks after a new Discourse release, we will backport smaller bug fixes into stable to create that version first point release.

Basically:

> [@Version 1.5.1 - different policy?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/version-1-5-1-different-policy/42252/5):
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> but essentially the week after stable a lot more reports come in for things that should be fixed and we tend to backport all those fixes.

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