Nightly

Definitions

1. Describing builds or releases generated frequently, often every night, from the latest state of development rather than from a stable release branch. In open-source culture nightly builds let users test new changes early, at the cost of greater risk and instability.

   In plain English: A frequently generated build, often made nightly from the latest code.

   Example: "The rendering fix reached the nightly channel first so adventurous users could verify it before the team promoted it to a stable release."

Related Terms

• Release Notes
• Weekly Release
• Beta
• End of Support
• LTS
• Package Build
• Package Test
• Prerelease
• Release Asset
• Release Binary
• Security Release
• Source Build
• Stable Branch
• Update Channel