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Release types

Stable release

Stable releases are the primary releases built for customers. Major releases contain a set of features that directly benefit our customers. GA releases are also manually tested by explorative tests.A stable release finalizes a development branch (major version) of inspectIT. Thus a stable version is feature complete (for this development branch). All features are integrated and everything fits together. We intend this releases for customers that look for a stable base for application performance management with inspectIT. For each stable release we put a high effort in quality (see Explorative Testing)

Note that stable releases are usually released every 6-9 month. Thus the customer will not get new features directly. 

Preview release

Preview releases are intermediate releases during the development of a the next major release. Preview releases are released as soon as development thinks that enough improvement for customers have been made. That is releases are created if important bug fixes were or a set of new features are integrated. Preview releases enables us to provide important features or bug fixes without having to wait for the next GA release.We do ensure that preview releases are working and can be used by customers, we will also apply all testing steps. 

One of the biggest differences to stable releases is, that the goals for the development branch of the major version is not yet completely finished. This means that there are new features and improvements, but some other features that might work well with them are still missing. This makes the preview version sometimes feel "unfinished". 

Preview releases will be released approximately every 2 month, thus the customer can have a stable base and stay updated with the current features. 

Snapshot release

Snapshot releases are triggered every week and provide the current stable branch of inspectIT development. 

Versioning and naming schema

Each GA stable version uses an x.y schema for an unique version description. We currently do not intend to increase the leading x value often. Criteria of x is how big the step between this version and the last version was. As a rough guideline we intend to increase x perhaps once every few years. The release number is increased with every run of the GA stable or the preview release. The buildnumber is an automatically created number that is increased for every build. It is used to allow us to uniquely identify our releases.

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