Software versioning

Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software.

Description

Within a given version number category (major, minor), these numbers are generally assigned in increasing order and correspond to new developments in the software.

At a fine-grained level, revision control is often used for keeping track of incrementally different versions of electronic information, whether or not this information is computer software.

Modern computer software is often tracked using two different software versioning schemes—an internal version number that may be incremented many times in a single day, such as a revision control number, and a released version that typically changes far less often, such as semantic versioning or a project code name.

See also

• Continuous Data Protection
• Maintenance release
• Microsoft Version Number
• Point release
• Product life cycle management
• Revision control
• Software engineering
• Software release life cycle

External links

• Software versioning @ Wikipedia