Android Guy Weekly: What is a Point Release, and What Does it Mean for Jelly Bean? | Pocketnow

Опубликовано 26 июня 2012, 0:58

Wikipedia says a "point release" is a minor release of a software project, especially one intended to fix bugs or do minor cleanups (rather than add features) and implies that such releases are relatively frequent. These versions differ from a "major release", which is typically a full number, and generally represents a significant change in features and is usually accompanied by noticeable modifications to the UI.

Google doesn't follow this pattern exactly, instead they their bug releases are generally versioned with a "sub-point", and their major versions can be somewhere in between. The current iteration of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is version 4.0.4, which represents four rounds of bug-fixes to version 4.0. Éclair, versions 2.0 and 2.1, differed significantly from Froyo (version 2.2) and Gingerbread (version 2.3).

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Android Guy Weekly: What is a Point Release, and What Does it Mean for Jelly Bean? | Pocketnow
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