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announcement about GDB version numbering
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 09:57:18 +0400
- Subject: announcement about GDB version numbering
Hello everyone,
This is to confirm that, following the GDB 8.3 and 8.3.1 releases,
GDB will be moving to a new version numbering scheme, where
the major version number gets incremented each time a new release
branch gets created. This is the result of a couple of public
discussions:
- between GDB contributors and maintainers at the 2018 GNU Cauldron
- on this mailing-list:
RFC: Changing GDB's version numbering scheme
https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2018-09/msg00256.html
- and a final confirmation by private discussion between Global
Maintainers.
So, to give a brief overview, version numbers will look like this
(the .90 versions are pre-releases):
- [old scheme] 8.2.90, 8.3, 8.3.1
- [new scheme] 9.0.90, 9.1, 9.2
- [new scheme] 10.0.90, 10.1, 10.2
- [new scheme] 11.0.90, 11.1, 11.2
The reason why the next release will follow the old scheme is because
we're too close to branching for me to be ready (I use a collection of
scripts to make the release), and also it avoids having us make some
changes e.g. in Bugzilla.
--
Joel