a month ago
- MELPA introduced two new experimental channels: MELPA Snapshots and MELPA Releases, which will eventually replace the traditional MELPA unstable and stable channels.
- The new snapshots channel uses version strings in the format RELEASE.0.YYYYMMDD.COUNT to avoid the issue where snapshot versions incorrectly appear greater than release versions.
- MELPA now consults both git/mercurial tags and library headers to determine the latest release, increasing package coverage in the releases channel to 6207 packages.
- Package maintainers are advised to align version tags with library header bumps to ensure consistent release identification across different ELPAs.