Revision as of 08:11, 19 December 2006

What's new

The new software versioning scheme rules each application software to be named as:

V x[.y] R m.f.h

Where V and R stand for:

• V = Version
  • The Version field is identified by:
    • x = Major Release as result of major feature enhancements with M3 status of product.
    • y = as an optional additional numbering.

• R = Release
  • The Release field is identified by:
    • m = Minor Release as result of minor feature enhancements (covers TRs and CRs)
    • f = Fix Release (FR) as result of a collection of solutions to TRs and HFs (covers only TRs, no CRs)
    • h = Hotfix (HF) as result of immediate solution to just one TR or only few TRs and to all TRs for Focal and/or Hot accounts (a Hotfix comprises all previous HFs, as example those cumulated since the latest FR)

Please note:

• FR = Fix Release
  
• HF = Hot Fix
  
• TR = Trouble Report
  
• CR = Change Request
  

Please also note that Version (Major) and Release (Minor, Fix and Hotfix) give both absolute and relative informations about a specific software's feature/bugfix levels but it's also necessary to compare them to previous ones to understand exactly what's new or different.
More in the examples below.

Examples

An example:

• Product Name  : optiPoint 410/420 SIP V6.0
• Software Version : V6 R0.62.0

This example shows that the optiPoint 410/420 SIP V6.0 software release version considered:

• Refers to Version V6 (as Major Release), the additional .0 could be omitted in this case (so V6 is equal to V6.0).
• Refers to Release R0.62.0
  • 0 (as Minor Release) so it doesn't introduce any new minor feature enhancements.
  • 62 (as Fix Release) so it introduces a collection of solutions to TRs and HFs
  • 0 (as Hotfix) so it doesn't introduce any new immediate solution to just one TR or only few TRs

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