The truth about Typo version numbers
Choosing a version number for Typo has always been something difficult that may have seem curious or anarchic to some of you. What is the difference between a major and a minor version, why have we skipped major version 3 and did we go directly to 4.0 ? All that sort of questions you may have and never dared to ask. Or maybe you just don’t care and you’ll keep reading just to make fun of my English.
Why did we went from Typo 2.6.0 to Typo 4.0?
Ever heard of Typo3 PHP CMS? No? Now you know.
Why did you go from Typo 4.1.1 to 5.0?
Typo 5.0 came up with Ruby on Rails 2.0 which is, for many reasons, a really big version upgrade of our beloved framework. It may have been the most important Rails version migration of Typo’s life, and this justified the version number upgrade as well.
What is the difference between Typo 5.0.1 and Typo 5.1?
Typo 5.0.1 is a bugfix release to Typo 5.0. We’re going to deliver these bugfixes at regular times, every 2 or 3 months, or for special reasons :
- The release fixes some critical bugs that make the application crash.
- We’ve fixed a security breach that may compromise your blog or your server.
- We’ve fixed a huge amount of small but soooo ennoying bugs and want to release the new version before our due date.
The next stable version we plan to release is Typo 5.1, which will have some minor releases, 5.1.1, 5.1.2 and so on. It’s easy, isn’t it? Last but not least, minor versions (like 5.1.2) may add new cool small features here and there. It always comes as a surprise.
Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:50 Posted in Random thoughts
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By Thanks for the work on typo! 10/01/2008 at 18h34
Good job…