How does Fedora handle XFCE packages updates?

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I was wondering how does fedora handle individual packages of a desktop environment like XFCE in terms of updates?

For example, thunar version on f42 and rawhide is 4.20.2-2.fc42 and version 4.21.0 has been released for over a month and hasn’t been pushed even to rawhide yet

Or is their something wrong I got and needs explaining?

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I would expect that 4.21 is the work-in-progress version for version 4.22. Some project specify the stable versions with an even version number and the development version with an uneven version number.

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Yep. Thats exactly right. Xfce uses odd releases for development
versions.

Fedora sticks with the stable releases.

There are stable update releases from time to time (ie, a 4.20.x).

The next major version will be 4.22.

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