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Expand Up @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ the CI to build and test their PR (e.g. when developing on a slow machine).
Rust has strong backwards-compatibility guarantees.
Thus, new features can't just be implemented directly in stable Rust.
Instead, we have 3 release channels: stable, beta, and nightly.
See [The Rust Book] for more details on Rust’s train release model.

- **Stable**: this is the latest stable release for general usage.
- **Beta**: this is the next release (will be stable within 6 weeks).
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See [this chapter on implementing new features](./implementing_new_features.md) for more
information.

[The Rust Book]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/appendix-07-nightly-rust.html

### Breaking changes

Breaking changes have a [dedicated section][Breaking Changes] in the dev-guide.
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