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Summary

This article will help you to adopt the best practices in the area of upgrading your server and terminal network with minimum down time and the other risks that might be involved.

Release versioning system

Our product comes with major releases and minor releases. Minor releases are also called patch releases.
Naming convention for release is for example version 20231012.20. Where 20231012 is a major version and .20 is a patch level. Major releases contain predominantly new functionality, database, architectural and security improvements and may

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Understanding the version number (12345678.90)

  • GENERAL BYTES software is constantly updating with major releases occurring on a semi-monthly basis. Between major releases, GB publishes patches whenever bugs are discovered and these are called minor or patch releases.

  • Releases follow the 8 digits, decimal, 2 digits naming convention (e.g. 12345678.90)

  • Major releases are releases that introduce new functional, architectural, security, or database improvements. These are named and written with the first 8 digits and follow a year-month-day numbering pattern; for example 20231012. NOTE: Major releases often contain changes that introduce bugs.

  • Minor releases contain just bug fixes and are

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  • designed to be safe and easy for the operators to install.

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Release frequencies

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  • written in the last 2 digits and follow the incremental order pattern; the ‘01’ in this example 20231012.01

Staying on supported version

GENERAL BYTES maintains only last two major releases meaning that only last two major releases receive patch releases. Unsupported major releases are marked as EOL(End Of Life) on patch releases page.

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