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Version Format

Version numbers for the appliance display in the form of Major.Minor.Bugfix, with no leading zeros. This allows RPM and other Linux tools to understand the version.

However, this does cause the sorting to display incorrectly. To display the sort correctly, replace the default command-line alias of ls = ls--color=auto with ls = ls-v --color=auto. The version number changes complete as follows:

• Major version is incremented on a full re-implementation. For example, using a new software package where major functionality changes, such as between MySQL 4.x and MySQL 5.x, and others where backward compatibility may not be possible.
• Minor version is incremented when adding new features or whenever there is any backward-compatible change in the boundary.
• Bugfix version is incremented whenever bugs are fixed. There are no new features or responsibilities. The change is fully backward compatible except for the cases when a user relies on a workaround for the fixed bug.