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From: Ben Warren <biggerbadderben@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:25:20 -0800
Subject: [U-Boot] ftp area ftp://ftp.denx.de/pub/u-boot/
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Hi Richard,

Dusek, Richard (Richard)** CTR ** wrote:
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> Could you tell me why has the name been changed from the
> u-boot-1.3.4.tar.bz2 type name to u-boot-2008.10.tar.bz2.
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To be less arbitrary.  The version number now includes a date, as 
opposed to continually increasing numbers with subjective 
major/minor/trivial numbers.
> The build uses the root directory to create the version number, in
> version_autogenerated.h, 
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> and now it is reported as "U-boot 2008.10"
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> instead of the old "U-Boot 1.3.4"
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> Where is this documented.  What does it mean.
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U-boot-2008.10 was released in October, 2008 (hence 2008.10).  The next 
one will be 2009.01, to be released in January 2009.  The last version 
with the old numbering scheme was 1.3.4.
> I searched through the CHANGELOG and the readme file and didn't find any
> mention of this.
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> Thank you.
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regards,
Ben