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Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out

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On 1/21/2015 9:53 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:13:53 -0500, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
>> Has Oracle used anything besides 1.major.minor_update?
>
> Lately we have jumps e.g. 1.8.0_25 -> 1.8.0_31
>
> We now have a version sometimes labelled 74/75.
>
> At the most you need XX.YY where XX is a major released with new
> features, and YY is a bug fix release.
>
> So 1.8.0_32 would be 8.32. However stability is more important than
> brevity.

<http://semver.org/> is the emerging standard for versioning. In short:
X.y.z-w
An increase in X indicates a backwards-incompatible change. Code that 
compiles with, e.g., 1.4.0 will not necessarily compile with 2.4.0
An increase in Y indicates a major, but backwards-compatible change. 
Code that compiles with 1.4.0 will compile with 2.0.0, but not 
necessarily vice versa.
An increase in Z is a "bugfix" update: code that compiles with 1.4.1 
will work with 1.4.0.
The w qualifier is extra gunk that may be needed for build processes or 
prerelease.

As Java is unlikely to ever break backwards compatibility, that first 
digit is probably going to stay 1 forever.

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2015-01-20 17:10 -0800
  Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2015-01-20 17:16 -0800
    Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2015-01-20 17:24 -0800
      Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-01-21 21:13 -0500
        Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2015-01-21 19:53 -0800
          Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2015-01-22 11:36 -0600
            Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-01-22 21:23 +0000
            Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2015-01-26 21:23 -0800
              Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-01-27 11:00 +0000
          Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-01-24 21:27 -0500
            Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2015-01-24 22:07 -0500
              Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-01-24 22:21 -0500
              Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2015-01-26 21:29 -0800
                Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2015-01-27 08:58 +0100
                Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-02-01 09:43 -0500
            Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2015-01-25 11:39 +0200
              Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2015-01-25 20:56 +0200
            Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2015-01-26 21:25 -0800
              Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-02-01 09:35 -0500
    Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-01-21 21:16 -0500
    Re: JDK 1.7.0_75 and 1..8.0_31 are out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-01-21 21:22 -0500

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