There is no mandated timeline for major versions. They only occur when we need to start the clock on deprecating features. A given major version should be the latest major version for at least one year from its original release date.
There is no mandated timeline for major versions. They only occur when we need to start the clock on deprecating features. A given major version should be the latest major version for at least one year from its original release date.
### CI version scheme
### CI and dev version scheme
* Continuous integration versions also exist, and are versioned off of alpha and beta releases. X.Y.Z-alpha.W.C+aaaa is C commits after X.Y.Z-alpha.W, with an additional +aaaa build suffix added; X.Y.Z-beta.W.C+bbbb is C commits after X.Y.Z-beta.W, with an additional +bbbb build suffix added. Furthermore, builds that are built off of a dirty build tree, (with things in the tree that are not checked it,) it will be appended with -dirty.
* Continuous integration versions also exist, and are versioned off of alpha and beta releases. X.Y.Z-alpha.W.C+aaaa is C commits after X.Y.Z-alpha.W, with an additional +aaaa build suffix added; X.Y.Z-beta.W.C+bbbb is C commits after X.Y.Z-beta.W, with an additional +bbbb build suffix added. Furthermore, builds that are built off of a dirty build tree, (during development, with things in the tree that are not checked it,) it will be appended with -dirty.