Mercurial > octave
changeset 26615:3945d8dd56a1 stable
* HACKING.md: Explain release candidate version numbers.
| author | John W. Eaton <jwe@octave.org> |
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| date | Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:55:58 +0000 |
| parents | 725f3f01f487 |
| children | d3600d0511d8 |
| files | etc/HACKING.md |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/HACKING.md Thu Jan 24 10:52:07 2019 -0800 +++ b/etc/HACKING.md Thu Jan 24 18:55:58 2019 +0000 @@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ 5.0.0 (experimental) active development of Octave 5 on default branch 5.0.1 (pre-release) stabilization period of Octave 5 on stable branch + 5.0.90 (pre-release) first release candidate for 5.1.0 6.0.0 (experimental) active development of Octave 6 on default branch 5.1.0 (release) first release of Octave 5 from stable branch 5.1.1 (pre-release) bug fixing on stable branch after 5.1.0 release @@ -322,8 +323,10 @@ * Any version X.0.0 means "this is an experimental development version". - * Any version X.Y.1 means, "this is a pre-release version meant - for bug fixing and testing". + * Any version X.Y.Z with Z > 0 means, "this is a pre-release version + meant for bug fixing and testing". In practice, Z will be either 1 + (stabilization period after and before making release candidates) or + 90, 91, etc. (release candidate snapshots leading up to release). * Any version X.Y.0 with Y != 0 means "this is a released version".