Re: ANNOUNCE: Xen 3.0.5 rename to 3.1.0

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 10:10:43AM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> The imminent next Xen release introduces a host of important new features
> including PV 32-on-64, HVM save/restore, and XenAPI 1.0. Now is a good time
> to bump our version number and reclaim the redundant second digit!
> 
> We plan to rename the xen-3.0.5-testing.hg tree to xen-3.1.0-testing later
> today. The release candidate will be renamed to 3.1.0-rc4. The final release
> will be called 3.1.0 (as opposed to 3.0.5-0 in the old numbering scheme).
> Further bug-fix releases in the 3.1 series will be called 3.1.x (as opposed
> to 3.0.5-x in the old numbering scheme).

Sounds like a good plan - makes it simpler to fit it in with RPM version
numbering too.

> This change rationalises and simplifies our version numbering scheme. It
> avoids the need for the fourth digit "-x", and incrementing the second
> rather than third digit makes it clearer that large changes, not just bug
> fixes, are incorporated in our quarterly major releases.

What is the relationship now between the hypervisor kernel capability
version numbers & the software release numbers ? I assume the HV ABI
versions should be considered to be decoupled now & they'll stay on
a value of 3.0 ? 

$ cat /sys/hypervisor/properties/capabilities 
xen-3.0-x86_32p hvm-3.0-x86_32 hvm-3.0-x86_32p

Regards,
Dan.
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