Definitions

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  • verb computing To retroactively supply a fix, or a new feature, to a previous version of a software product at the same time (or after) supplying it to the current version.
  • verb computing, video games To re-release software on its original or a previous platform with new features, after its release on a different platform.

Etymologies

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back +‎ port

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  • If the translation contains more recent content, we could have that wrapped in special flags so other people knowing both languages get notified to "backport" the changes in the original version.

    Planet KDE 2009

  • It will be only available in Ubuntu Karmic, but we'll try to backport it to Jaunty and Intrepid.

    sK1 vector graphics editor is now available for Ubuntu 2009

  • With this set up, I can easily changes between trunk and branches, and backport patches from trunk to the cdk-1.2.x branch using git cherry-pick and merge all commits to the branch into trunk using:$ git checkout master git merge cdk-1.2.x

    Archive 2008-09-01 Egon Willighagen 2008

  • With this set up, I can easily changes between trunk and branches, and backport patches from trunk to the cdk-1.2.x branch using git cherry-pick and merge all commits to the branch into trunk using:$ git checkout master git merge cdk-1.2.x

    CDK development with branches using Git Egon Willighagen 2008

  • I'll also probably demonstrate in greater depth my DNS-based solution to RSS overload. future plans Once the DNS infrastructure is ready for demo, backport it to general purpose UDP, document the spec, and turn it into a NAT2NAT framework.

    Boing Boing: January 9, 2005 - January 15, 2005 Archives 2005

  • I liked OpenOffice 2.0 a lot, and had converted all of my talks to the 2.0 presentation format; having to backport to 1.3 (or whatever it was) really sucked.

    The ultimate showdown Sean 2006

  • The company released a backport of Honeycomb's important Fragments framework, allowing those APIs to be used through a static library on previous versions of the operating system.

    Ars Technica Ryan Paul 2011

  • The company released a backport of Honeycomb's important Fragments framework, allowing those APIs to be used through a static library on previous versions of the operating system.

    Ars Technica Ryan Paul 2011

  • Update is in trunk, do NOT backport it to 4.4.0, not valid

    KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] Yurchor 2010

  • Ruby18 is also part of Webstack, so we'll use that until we decide that we'll backport the ruby18 that is also in the opensolaris SFW tree.

    KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en] SunTzuTech 2010

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