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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of backport.

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  • Google Maps Navigation officially comes to Android 1.6 (engadget) ... they've gone ahead and backported it to 1.6 (alias "Donut") which means that T-Mobile's myTouch 3G and G1 plus other 1. 6-equipped devices across the land can get in on the action.

    Daily Dispatch: Roku adds channels; IE 6 & 7 targeted by hackers 2009

  • Even better, it also recognized patches that were backported from trunk to the branch, and will not attempt to merge that either.

    CDK development with branches using Git Egon Willighagen 2008

  • Fixes in Fedora aren't backported like those for Debian or Ubuntu.

    How OpenSource betrayed OpenSource Ante Karamati 2006

  • Sez Blue: …the community has remained active, and most functionality available to the 800/810 series has been backported.

    Nokia Internet Tablet to get speed boost and 3G « Boy Genius Report 2008

  • Fixes in Fedora aren't backported like those for Debian or Ubuntu.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Ante Karamati 2006

  • Even better, it also recognized patches that were backported from trunk to the branch, and will not attempt to merge that either.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Egon Willighagen 2008

  • Now, the later website is maintained by me, and I extended the aggregator software with molecule support, for example to show hot molecules on the frontpage at some point my patches will be backported into mainstream.

    Cb comments for InChI's Egon Willighagen 2007

  • My Postfix version, for example, runs directly from a backported package.

    Reflective Surface - A Debian install: it rocks, but… 2004

  • The idea behind the project is that it will give consumer electronics vendors an upstream environment in which to collaborate on a longer-lasting kernel with backported features and fixes, reducing the cost and development overhead of each vendor having to maintain its own custom kernel tree.

    Ars Technica Ryan Paul 2011

  • If they can expand the availability of backported features in this manner for other key ICS APIs, it could make the transition more seamless.

    Ars Technica Ryan Paul 2011

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