WWIV Releases and Versioning

Created: 2015-11-30
Revised: 2018_6_12
Rushfan (wwiv@)

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WWIV Version Number Components

MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH.BUILD

Component	Description
MAJOR	Major release (i.e. 5 for the foreseeable future)
MINOR	Minor release (i.e. 0, 1, these will be incremented every milestone release)
PATCH	Normally 0 unless a new patch release needs to be made off-cycle
BUILD	Build number from Jenkins

Platform Support

WWIV supports the following platforms on a tiered system.

Tier Definitions

Tier	Description
Tier1	Fully supported, bugs may block a release.
Tier2	Supported but lacking a maintainer, bugs may NOT block a release.
Tier3	Best effort support, bugs will NOT block a release.

Platforms (5.3 and later)

Tier	Platform
Tier1	Windows 32-bit (Windows7 or later)
Tier2	Linux Debian8, Debian9 (X64)
Tier3	Linux (X86), Linux CentOS7 (X64), Others (ARM)

Platforms (5.1 to 5.2)

Tier	Platform
Tier1	Windows 32-bit (Windows7 or later)
Tier2	Linux {Debian8 like} (x86/X64)
Tier3	Others (ARM)

Release Cadence

Every 12-15 months (or so) a new Minor release will be released. Bugs targeted to this release will use the GitHub milestone functionality.