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Q. What is a Stable vs. a Development Release?
A. Basically the stable (1.Xz) and development (1.Y.z) releases should be similar in functionality for Y = X+1, but the development releases will include features and enhancements not present in the stable branch. Once those features mature (and get well tested ;), they will be incorporated by the stable branch.
For example the first stable release (1.00) uses two systemcalls as the previous releases did. However, the vserver system calls have been changed in the first development release (1.1.0). Linus assigned the vserver project a single system call, so a System Call Switch (see Syscall Switch Info) has been implemented. Running a development release usually requires using recent (latest) tools from Enrico's util-vserver branch.
Q. How does the Versioning work?
A. Since version 1.00 the versioning is similar to the kernel versioning scheme. Even numbered releases (1.Xz with even X) are stable, reasonably well tested and expected not to change feature-wise. Odd numbered (1.Y.z with odd Y) releases are development releases. The last digit/number (z) is a subversion identifier. Experimental versions and Release Candidates might add a fourth identifier to that scheme.
Q. What features are supported in which branch/release?
A. The following matrix tries to give an overview (it might be outdated)
| Feature | 1.00 | 1.20 | 1.2.10 | 1.3.8 | 0.09 | 1.9.0 | 1.9.2 | 2.0 |
| Legacy Kernel API (vs1.2x) | YES | YES | YES | part | part | part | part | part |
| Legacy Proc Filesystem | YES | YES | YES | part | part | part | part | part |
| Immutable Link Invert | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Initpid and Fakeinit | YES | YES | YES | YES | yes | yes | YES | YES |
| Syscall Command Switch | - | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Syscall vkill commands | - | yes | yes | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Syscall rlimit commands | - | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Syscall ctx_wait support | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | YES |
| Syscall iattr commands | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Syscall namespace commands | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Syscall context flags | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Syscall context caps | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Syscall scheduler tuning | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES |
| Syscall 32bit compat | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | YES |
| Next gen. Proc Filesystem | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Hashed RCU for xid/nid/dlim | - | - | - | - | - | - | YES | - |
| Chroot Barrier Flag | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Proc Security Flags | - | - | yes | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Userspace Reboot Helper | - | yes | yes | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Userspace Startup/Shutdown Helper | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | YES |
| VRoot Device | - | YES | YES | YES | - | - | - | YES |
| Advanced IP Selection | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Advanced uts_name config | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Fake Memory Display | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES | YES |
| Hard CPU limits | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES |
| Context File Tagging | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES |
| NFS based File Tagging | - | - | - | - | - | - | yes | YES |
| Per Context Disk Limits | - | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES |
| Network Context Support | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES |
| Socket Accounting | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES |
| Advanced Sysctl Debug System | - | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES |
| Extended proc/devpts Security | - | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES |
| Flag: Pause Context | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES |
| Flag: Hide proc/mounts | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES |
| CCap: Secure Mount | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES |
| CCap: Change host/domainname | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES |
| CCap: Modify rlimits | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES | YES |
| CCap: Raw ICMP for Ping | - | - | - | - | - | - | YES | YES |
Q. What about additional patches?
A. There are Context Quota & Context Limit as well as Memory Limits and a lot of minor feature/enhancement patches available from Herbert. Alex has made available patches for Red Hat kernels in the past. See the Documentation page for links.