From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8309138372727827957==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Javier Martinez Canillas Subject: Re: [tpm2] tpm2-tss v2.2.0 Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 01:21:09 +0100 Message-ID: <6ee9d456-9a2b-3b69-c90c-05037e64f998@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: 4ced1f47-62ab-457b-0e6e-46f7e5de147a@intel.com List-ID: To: tpm2@lists.01.org --===============8309138372727827957== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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, -- = Javier Martinez Canillas Software Engineer - Desktop Hardware Enablement Red Hat --===============8309138372727827957==--