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Re: [Xen-devel] ANNOUNCE: Xen 3.0.5 rename to 3.1.0

To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] ANNOUNCE: Xen 3.0.5 rename to 3.1.0
From: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 15:12:10 +0100
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On 2/5/07 15:02, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> This change rationalises and simplifies our version numbering scheme. It
>> avoids the need for the fourth digit "-x", and incrementing the second
>> rather than third digit makes it clearer that large changes, not just bug
>> fixes, are incorporated in our quarterly major releases.
> 
> What is the relationship now between the hypervisor kernel capability
> version numbers & the software release numbers ? I assume the HV ABI
> versions should be considered to be decoupled now & they'll stay on
> a value of 3.0 ? 
> 
> $ cat /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities
> xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p

Yes. In an ideal world we would have used this version-numbering scheme in
the first place and made the capability identifiers xen-3-x86_32p etc. Never
mind.

 -- Keir



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