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Lolli Nisbet

Hey Everyone,
This may seem like such an easy question, but can anyone advise if the new version releases are cumulative or semantic?

Alan Kilborn

@Lolli-Nisbet said in Patching Type:

cumulative or semantic

You’re probably going to have to say what those terms mean in the context of your easy question.

Neil Schipper

@Lolli-Nisbet

Have you, in your life, ever encountered the phrase cumulative version release or semantic version release?

PeterJones

@Alan-Kilborn and @Neil-Schipper ,

I did some web searching. As far as I can tell, “semantic” release means you use the strictly Major.Minor.Bugfix in your release, so you would only bump from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 for a bugfix, and 1.1.1 to 1.2.0 for new features, and 1.1.1 to 2.0 for backward-compatibility-breaking features.

If that is the definition, then Notepad++ is not semantic, because the developers don’t strictly stick to those rules: most releases have both bugfixes and new features.

Given that, I believe that Notepad++ would be “cumulative” by @Lolli-Nisbet’s phrasing.

Lolli Nisbet

@PeterJones Thank you that answers it :)