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| From | Niklas Karlsson <nikke.karlsson@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Versionflation |
| Date | 2026-01-16 11:43 +0000 |
| Organization | Department of Redundancy Department |
| Message-ID | <msumj2F4pb3U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <10kcue7$1fgv6$1@dont-email.me> |
On 2026-01-16, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> I wonder whether there’s a name for this: I know of one or two
> open-source projects which started out with a series of version
> numbers of the form ‘1.x”, only to decide to drop the “1.” at some
> point (before getting to version “2.x”) and just use the “x” part as
> the version number.
>
> I first came across this with Java, where the version numbers got up
> to 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, and then these were renumbered 8, 9, 10, and the
> next one was version 11.
>
> This also happened with the Asterisk PBX software, where the stable
> releases have even version numbers: these got up to 1.6 and then 1.8,
> then the next one after that was version 10, and we are now up to
> version 22.
>
> I believe this also happened earlier with Emacs, but the only official
> information I can find indicates that the first public release was
> numbered 13, from 1985.
>
> Can anyone shed any further light on this? Do you know of any other
> examples?
Not open source at the time, but Solaris 2.6 (July 1997) was followed by
Solaris 7 (November 1998).
Niklas
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