It is quite intuitive that at least Gamma comes after Beta and Alpha.
But how about CTP, RTM and Preview releases? Which one comes first and last?
MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework) is currently on Preview 5 release, but I am not sure if it is a release before Alpha or after Beta, CTP or RTM. Is it OK to use preview releases in production code?
What are the differences between those releases? I am particularly interested in knowing differences between
- RTM
- CTP
- Beta
- RC
- Preview
releases.
It seems like everywhere each releases mean different things.