Branches and Releases

Rocket.Chat maintains two branches for release builds:

• develop
• master

The default branch is develop.

All contributors create PR against develop branch. Core team will merge these PRs after review down to develop branch.

Every few weeks, core team will:

• stop PR merges
• test features on develop branch for a few days
• optionally cut a beta release (tag it as beta) from develop for external testing
• after testing and bug fixes - merge down the feature set as a stable release onto master

All builds from master are considered stable (tested), and will be tagged with proper major.minor release info.