The "master" branch is meant to contain what are very well tested and
ready to be used in a production setting. Every now and then, a "feature
release" is cut from the tip of this branch and they typically are named
-with three dotted decimal digits. The last such release was 1.7.7 done on
-Sept 30, 2011. You can expect that the tip of the "master" branch is always
+with three dotted decimal digits. The last such release was 1.7.8 done on
+Dec 2, 2011. You can expect that the tip of the "master" branch is always
more stable than any of the released versions.
Whenever a feature release is made, "maint" branch is forked off from