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may differ significantly from its current revision.  Stability
branches   The stability branch series is an official fork of
the Chicken Scheme core which backports certain useful bugfixes
and minor features from the future to "stable" maintenance
versions.  Each stability branch is branched off a tagged
version of the master branch, such as 4.7.0, and named like
stability/4.7.0, where 4.7.0 represents the branch point.
Stability branches may also sprout from development versions
such as 4.7.3, depending on demand.  Releases for
stability/4.7.0 have version numbers like 4.7.0.x (for example,
and are tagged in the repository with this version number. The
tag and version number are updated together. Prior to, version
numbers had an -st suffix to denote their unofficial status.
NEWS.stability in the repository contains a detailed list of
changes in each release, while NEWS gives a more friendly
overview.    The stability/4.7.0 branch is recommended f