Definition of "backported" [backported]

• Simple past tense and past participle of backport. (verb)

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• "Google Maps Navigation officially comes to Android 1.6 (engadget) ... they've gone ahead and backported it to 1.6 (alias "Donut") which means that T-Mobile's myTouch 3G and G1 plus other 1. 6-equipped devices across the land can get in on the action."
• "Even better, it also recognized patches that were backported from trunk to the branch, and will not attempt to merge that either."
• "Fixes in Fedora aren't backported like those for Debian or Ubuntu."