How do you label software version? * EXAMPLE * 1.0.0?

How do you label software version? * EXAMPLE * 1.0.0?

I have been making a few java applications. Many of them I release at 1.0.0 and they never receive any updates. However, this one application has received some positive reviews and I am working on an updated version. This particular update is only including a few minor bug fixes. So how should I label it?

1.0.1 or 1.1.0 or 2.0?
How would I label it in the future? Can someone give me a guide or chart explaining how you label version’s?

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2 Comments for How do you label software version? * EXAMPLE * 1.0.0?

  • 1. ItachisXeyes  |  February 15th, 2011 at 9:23 am

    1.0.1

    ok. after this lets say you make more bug fixes and add a feature or two…you’d go 1.2.0
    much larger changes and you’d go to 2.0.0

    so the farthest to the right is small changes, the middle is moderate or just a bunch of small stuff, and the far left is big changes.

    you can check this out…its a lot more detailed then i expected, XD
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_versioning

  • 2. Frederic  |  February 15th, 2011 at 9:35 am

    The most often used structure for numeric schemes is or . The first commercially released version of a software product has the version 1.0, with numbers below 1 being alpha or beta versions.

    Only you can determine whether the changes you have made are major enough to warrant a full version upgrade. Have you added many new features? Changed the interface? Made it significantly different so that it warrants a new version number?

    Or have you patched things, fixed bugs, tweaked performance or added one or two planned features that round out the product?

    Probably the most visible (and stringent) adherent to numeric software versioning is Oracle, which extends the practice to FIVE numbers. The order from left to right signifies

    Version number
    Maintenance release number
    Patch release number
    Port-Specific Patch Release Number
    Emergency patch release number

    Thus, the current release of Oracle’s flagship database, 11gR2 is 11.2.0.1.0

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