# Could we have a new VTK 9.x release soon?

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/could-we-have-a-new-vtk-9-x-release-soon/5464
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 30, 2021, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/could-we-have-a-new-vtk-9-x-release-soon/5464 "2021-03-30T14:43:30Z")
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### Author: ![Paul\_Harris](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/paul_harris/32/3240_2.png) [@Paul\_Harris](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/Paul_Harris)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/could-we-have-a-new-vtk-9-x-release-soon/5464/7 "2021-04-20T01:04:59Z")

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Hum how did you reply inline Mathieu?  
via email, I guess? Discourse doesn’t seem to have an inline reply button?

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> > What version? I don’t know!
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> Use the last released version, 9.0.1

That is pretty old, and I want to avoid hitting old bugs that have since been fixed over the last 8+ months…

I saw a few bug reports that are in the release/master that could affect me - hard to tell.  
Plus I may have a few patches to push up.

> > And what is the “release” branch for exactly? Is this a “more stable” version of master?
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> The release branch is used for new patch release (eg: 9.0.2 if it ever comes) and only contains bugfixes, it does not contains new features as master does.

> > I should also mention that this would be a good page to document the release plans: hasn’t been updated for 9.x at all yet …
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> Indeed, the wiki is being phased out. You can find documentation about the VTK 9 changes and release notes here: [https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-0-0/3205/6](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtk-9-0-0/3205/6)

Thanks, I’ll track that thread.

> That being said, we definitely needs to improve and clarify this process.

Even just cleaning up old links on the wiki might help in the meantime.  
For example, I noticed there was a link to the old bug tracker that doesn’t work.

> Are you a VTK contributor [@Paul\_Harris](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/paul_harris) ? Maintaining and improving a opensource project as complex a VTK is a very big task and we will take any help we can get.

I have contributed over the last (nearly) 2 decades, with a few small patches and bugfixes,  
but they have mostly been lost in the bug tracker and not folded in due to lack of attention.

I don’t have time to do any extra contributions or work for the VTK cause specifically, but if I do need to patch VTK, I will be pushing patches / pull requests as best I can.

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