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+Information for people packaging the Guest Additions for Linux distributions
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+We strongly recommend that people packaging the Guest Additions for Linux
+distributions track the latest stable version rather than staying with a given
+major release number for the life-time of the distribution. The major number
+is more relevant for the host software (the actual VirtualBox application)
+than for the Linux Additions, which are developed more continuously.
+
+We sometimes have two stable versions at one time - one with more features and
+a long-term stable version from the previous major release, which has less
+features but a code base which has had longer to mature. While this is also
+less relevant for the Additions, you can find the current long-term stable
+release version number at
+ http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/LATEST-STABLE.TXT