Re: [tpm2] tpm2-tss v2.2.0

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm at redhat.com>]

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Hello Tadeusz,

On 2/5/19 6:55 PM, Tadeusz Struk wrote:
> Hi Javier,
> 
> On 2/4/19 11:36 PM, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Thanks a lot for the releases and the announcements. I've a maybe silly
>> question but it wasn't clear to me why we have both a 2.1.1 and 2.2.0
>> releases. From the CHANGELOG it seems that the only difference is that
>> 2.2.0 has new features (QNX build and dev TCTI partial reads support)
>> while 2.1.1 only contains the fixes.
>>
>> Does it mean that it's safe to update the Fedora package from 2.1.0 to
>> 2.2.0 or should I update to 2.1.1? My understanding is that the former.
> 
> Yes, the logic is that the first number changes if there are changes that
> break backwards compatibility. The second number bumps if that are new
> features, but the release does not break backward compatibility, and
> the last number is just for bug fixes. So it is safe to update from 2.1.1
> to 2.2.0. As you noted - it includes bug fixes and the two new features.
> The 2.1.1 version is for users who, for whatever reason, do not want to
> have the new features, but want to get all the bug fixes. Similar story
> with 2.0.2.
> I imagine that for 2.0.x and 2.1.x we will maintain them for one year
> after the initial release, and only release new version if there will
> be explicit ask for it from the users.
> 
> The numbering method is described in
> https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-tss/blob/master/RELEASE.md#version-numbers
> 

Thanks a lot for the clarification. I've updated the package to 2.2.0.

Best regards,
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Javier Martinez Canillas
Software Engineer - Desktop Hardware Enablement
Red Hat