Thursday, September 11, 2008

On the difference between a release and a release candidate

Question: Is ASF+SDF Meta-Environment 2.0.1-RC4 newer or older than ASF+SDF Meta-Environment 2.0.1?

We have added the RC postfix - release candidate - to indicate a preview of a version that is to be released after a number of pre-releases. Version 2.0.1 is thus the final version after the unfinished pre-releases 2.0.1-RC1 through 2.0.1-RC4.

We expect to release small bugfixes on 2.0.1 this year, called 2.0.x with increasing numbers for x. Non-backward compatible changes, or otherwise de-stabilizing changes will lead to 2.y versions. We are working on 3.z in parallel.

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