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.

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Understanding the version number (12345678.90)

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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.

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

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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 contain changes that introduce bugs.

Minor releases contain just bug fixes and are

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design to be safe and easy for the operators to install.

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Patch releases are

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numbered in incremental order.

Release frequencies

GENERAL BYTES releases typically a new major release once a month in average. Patch releases frequency depends on number of bugs discovered.

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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