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13 <p align="center"><b><font size="4">ESRG Release Version Number Assignment Policy</font></b></p>
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15 <p>To maintain good administrative order, there is a policy for how version
16 numbers of materials released by the ESRG are assigned, and how the materials
17 are released.&nbsp; Here are the policies.</p>
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20 <li><b>All materials and downloads are released simultaneously with the same
21 version number.</b>&nbsp; (This means that every release is a
22 &quot;full&quot; release.&nbsp; It is possible or even likely that some
23 materials are unchanged from release to release except for the version
24 number.)<br>
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26 <li><b>There are NO patches.</b>&nbsp; If a bug is not critical, it can be
27 ignored until the next release.&nbsp; If a bug is critical, it can
28 accelerate the next release (perhaps the release would be made with just the
29 bug fix).&nbsp; Releases are &quot;all or nothing&quot;, and there is no
30 notion of a &quot;patch&quot;.<br>
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32 <li><b>There are NO &quot;silent&quot; releases.</b>&nbsp; To avoid confusion,
33 any change in the set of released materials requires another version number.&nbsp; Allowing a
34 situation where two things which are [even subtly] different but have the
35 same version number causes confusion.<br>
36 </li>
37 <li><b>Version numbers are of the form:</b><br>
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39 <b>&lt;Major number&gt;.&lt;2-Digit Minor number&gt;&lt;Optional
40 &quot;A&quot; for &quot;alpha&quot; release&gt;.&lt;2-digit bug fix
41 number&gt;</b><br>
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43 For example, these are valid version numbers and their meanings:<br>
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45 <li><b>1.06A.00</b>:&nbsp; This is the &quot;alpha&quot; (trial, or not
46 fully stable) release of version 1.06.&nbsp; (Note that &quot;A&quot; is
47 normally only used with a bug fix number of &quot;00&quot;.)&nbsp;</li>
48 <li><b>1.07.09</b>:&nbsp; This is the ninth bug fix release of stable
49 release version 1.07.00.<br>
50 </li>
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52 <li><b>Version numbers normally follow this sequential cycle:</b>
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54 <li>An alpha release, such as &quot;v1.06A.00&quot;.</li>
55 <li>A stable release, which will consist of the alpha release with any bugs
56 corrected, such as &quot;v1.06.00&quot;.</li>
57 <li>Bug fixes to the stable release, such as &quot;v1.06.01&quot;,
58 &quot;v1.06.02&quot;, etc.</li>
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63 <p align="center" style="margin-top: -2; margin-bottom: -1"><font size="1">This
64 web page is maintained by <a href="mailto:dtashley@users.sourceforge.net">David
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