The technical version names provide information about a Automic product's current version. It is expressed in three main segments.
This is the main version of the Automation EngineThis component drives an Automation Engine system and consists of different types of server processes. which is indicated by the first segment of the entire version number (such as 10.0.0).
A minor releaseReleases combine a set of activities and a set of packages as well as other release artifacts under a timeline (a plan including milestones and phases), which can be planned, baselined and tracked. is released within a main version (indicated by the number in the second segment) and includes major modifications and several critical and non-critical corrections. A minor release always includes new feature (see Release Notes) which can also cause major modifications (such as databaseA database is an organized collection of data including relevant data structures. modifications). Minor releases are supplied at predetermined dates in intervals of three to six months.
Note that the components AutomationEngine, UserInterfaceThis is the Automation Engine's graphical user interface. [Formerly called the "Rich Client", "RichGUI" and "Dialog Client."] and Initial data of a minor release must always be updated together.
Patches are only released in order to correct critical and non-critical errors for which there is no workaround.
An exception to these rules is the numbering of version 11.0 and 11.1 of the Automation Engine. As the 11.0 was a special Offerings Release, the major release of Automation Engine version 11 is 11.1.
Major Release (main version) |
Minor Release | Service Pack (patch) | Pre-Release (optional) |
Hotfix |
---|---|---|---|---|
xx. |
yy. |
zz |
-dev
|
+build.nnn |
Example of a complete version information:
10.2.0-dev+build.23
Pre-Releases are identified by a hyphen ("-") plus an abbreviation (such as -dev for a developer build or -beta for a beta version. This additional information is inserted between the Service-Pack number and the hotfix number. Pre-Releases are versionsAn application version holds zero or more deployment packages and may have dependencies to zero or more application versions of the same (or to different) applications that are not intended for productive operation.
Main Version | Hotfix Number |
---|---|
9.00A |
xxx-xxx |
Example of a complete version information:
9.00A123-456
Versions that are not intended for productive operation have individual names (such as beta release).
The number of the current Automation Engine version.
This 6-digit number is composed of:
abb-bcc
The last but one digit of the hotfix number (xxx-xxx) indicates whether a particular componentA component is a single deployable application artifact. As an example, this can be yourfile.war to be deployed into a Tomcat container. Each component has different properties which determine where to get it from, how to configure it, etc. You will need one component per application artifact: e.g., one for the application tier and one for the database backend. is included in a Service Pack and in which one it is included. Each Service Pack is numbered in a consecutive ascending order:
Main Version | Hotfix Number | Service Pack |
---|---|---|
8.00A | xxx-x1x | Service Pack 1 |
8.00A | xxx-x2x | Service Pack 2 |
9.00A | xxx-x2x | Service Pack 1 |
9.00A | xxx-x3x | Service Pack 2 |
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