Cyanogenmod updates

[cannon11]

So I'm having a bit of confusion.
I got a notification for new cyanogenmod updates.
There are 3 of them.
they are all layed out like
cm-11-20140308- snapshot-...
and each one of them has different numbers.

Are these CM 11 updates, or what are they, and why is there 3 of them?
And if these are really CM 11 updates, how come cm11 doesn't show up as a stable update when I look up the cyanogenmod roms for my galaxy nexus on the internet? The newest one I can find on the internet on the cyanogenmod website is 10.2.1.
so can anyone explain this?

 

[funkylogik]

These are called "nightly" builds. Theyre experimental builds of the rom that are usually updated every day.
They arent stable or fully tested so if youre gonna flash one, make a nandroid backup first.
The numbers are in american date format so 20140308 means it was built on 8th of march 2014 :thumbup:

 

[funkylogik]

EDIT sorry snapshots are very stable. More stable than nightlies but still make a nandroid before flashing one.
To Cyanogen, "stable" means that its completely perfect so as far as i know there are no "stable" builds of cm11 yet. But snapshots are pretty stable (hope that makes sense lol)

 

[boathead]

yeah, what funky said. the hierarchy of stability in a rom is stable, release candidate, snapshot, then nightly. i think.

i'm not sure many devices have a stable kit kat rom. i have cm10.2 going on my gnex though i do have an 11 snapshot going on another device.