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author | Mike Lewis <mlewis@gitlab.com> | 2019-01-23 04:32:38 +0300 |
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committer | Mike Lewis <mlewis@gitlab.com> | 2019-01-23 04:32:38 +0300 |
commit | 5f902f1c89ffd6780f3efbe9afdebbef175fbb46 (patch) | |
tree | a65cc57852e0a86117e4f34005bd6d5d030241c5 | |
parent | 1de38289e2fff116970febc50111b92d5ec877ff (diff) |
Add clarity around meaning and potential range of version numbers
-rw-r--r-- | doc/policy/maintenance.md | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/policy/maintenance.md b/doc/policy/maintenance.md index 6c3ad080e3e..1d656574acd 100644 --- a/doc/policy/maintenance.md +++ b/doc/policy/maintenance.md @@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ GitLab follows the [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/) for its releases: For example, for GitLab version 10.5.7: -- `10` represents major version. -- `5` represents minor version. -- `7` represents patch number. +- `10` represents the major version. The major release was 10.0.0, but often referred to as 10.0. +- `5` represents the minor version. The minor release was 10.5.0, but often referred to as 10.5. +- `7` represents the patch number. + +Any part of the version number can increment into multiple digits, for example, 13.10.11. The following table describes the version types and their release cadence: |