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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.
| Release type | Version schema | Version example |
|---|---|---|
| Major Stable Release | [majorversion].[releasenumber].[buildnumber]-GAstable | 1.6.4.78-GAstable |
| Beta Preview Release | [majorversion].[releasenumber].[buildnumber]-preview | 1.6.1.78-preview |
| Snapshot Release | [majorversion].[releasenumber].[buildnumber]-Snapshot | 1.6.1.78-snapshot |
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