Announcing two new experimental MELPA channels
A few days ago we have published two new MELPA channels, MELPA Snapshots and MELPA Releases. For now these channels are considered experimental and coexist with the traditional channels MELPA (“regular” a.k.a. “unstable”) and MELPA Stable. Eventually the snapshots channel is going to replace unstable, and releases is going to replace stable. But don’t worry, if you are not ready to update just yet; the new channels are still considered experimental and the current thinking is that they won’t replace the traditional channels for around another year.
After years in the making, MELPA is finally moving away from using raw timestamps as version strings for development versions. While the traditional unstable channel uses the version string format YYYYMMDD.HHMM, the new snapshots channel uses RELEASE.0.YYYYMMDD.COUNT.
See the blog post (https://emacsair.me/2026/07/03/melpa-channels/) for the whole story. (Note the bit about your very own ELPA. ;)