% Release Channels

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> The Rust project uses a concept called ‘release channels’ to manage releases.
> New nightly releases are created once a day.
> Every six weeks, the latest nightly release is promoted to ‘Beta’.
> At that point, it will only receive patches to fix serious errors.
> Six weeks later, the beta is promoted to ‘Stable’.

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This chapter does not exist yet in [the second edition][2].
You can check out other resources that describe release channels.

* **[In the Rustup documentation: Keeping Rust Up-to-date][4]**
* [On the website: Install Rust][5]
* [In the Rust RFCs: RFC 507 — Release Channels][3]
* [in the current edition: How Rust is Made and “Nightly Rust”][2]
* <small>[In the first edition: Ch 4.11 — Release Channels][1]</small>


[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.30.0/book/first-edition/release-channels.html
[2]: appendix-07-nightly-rust.html
[3]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0507-release-channels.md
[4]: https://github.com/rust-lang-nursery/rustup.rs/blob/master/README.md#keeping-rust-up-to-date
[5]: https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/tools/install