Is the experimental version the same as the stable?

So, I’m not sure what exatly is going on with the experimental version.

Have a look at the distribution releases, on bookworm (which has the stable release), you can see the version is 0.4.8.12, which just got released.

The nightly version is 0.4.9.0-alpha-dev, which is expected.

However, if you look closely, the experimental version was last modified one week from now (probably due to some automated process), but the version is 0.4.7.6-rc-1, which dates back to April 2022.

The reason it still downloaded version 0.4.8.11 even if I added the experimental repository is because it fetches the latest version, which happens to be the stable.

I wonder what happened. Apparently the experimental versions are no longer used, or at least not made publicly available before it becomes the stable release.

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