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Mozilla provides development builds of Firefox in the following channels: Beta, Aurora, and Nightly. As of March 2013May 2016, Firefox 20 beta 47 is in the Beta channel, Firefox 21 alpha 48 is in the Aurora channel, and Firefox 22 pre-alpha 49 is in the Nightly channel.
A release is a specific version of the application, and will have a number associated with it such as 20.0 or 20.0.1. A build narrows down that release even more; you can see specific build information in about:buildconfig. Releases that have been under development go "up" a channel about every six weeks, usually released the day after the code is merged. So the channel is like a slot that is filled every 6 weeks with a new version of the software that has been intensively tested.
