Information for people packaging the Guest Additions for Linux distributions

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