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 Minor version updates of Gluon are usually very easy to do. Therefore, we have a daily job which checks for a new minor version of Gluon and performs an [automatic update](https://gitlab.freifunk-stuttgart.de/firmware/ffs-pipeline-nightly) if one is available.
 
+## Branches
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+For each firmware release (vX.Y) we have a seperate branch.
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+There is also the experimental branch which is our build against Gluon master. Most bugfixes hence need to be applied to the corresponding branch of the next firmware release and the experimental branch.
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 ## Other repositories
 
 We have a [repository with our custom packages](https://gitlab.freifunk-stuttgart.de/firmware/gluon-packages).