What does "new upstream release" mean

Asked by LEGOManiac

I see today that there are 154 updates available since I last checked 2 days ago. The comments for many of them simply say "new upstream release"

Waht does that expression mean? Is it simply saying that it's the latest version? That's what I figure, but it seems kind of redundant since it is, after all, an update.

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Best Jon Charge (seropith) said :
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http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/Packaging/WhyUpstream

Basically, when a bug is filed against say... "Ubuntu" and it actually affects something maintained by another package, this is said to have the big pushed upstream to the actual project's bugtracker. When a fix is released from that project "Gnome" for example, and released within ubuntu, it is an upstream release.

I hope this helps.

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LEGOManiac (bzflaglegomaniac) said :
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Thanks JonCharge, that solved my question.