Wedia product numbering

Owned by Olivier Grenet
Apr 26, 2021
1 min read

Wedia follow Calendar versioning. Versions follow the following numbering scheme:

YEAR.MAJOR.MINOR

The third version published in 2021 is labeled : 2021.3.0


This new Calendar versioning is used since 2021.3.0 , which in the old scheme would have been 11.31.0

 

Why and when did we transitioning to Calendar versioning ?

We used to follow a strict semantic versioning version numbering :

MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH

until version 11.30.1 , in April 2021.

As we have a very strong backward compatibility commitment, we have not changed the MAJOR version number for ... ten years !
The Calendar versioning : https://calver.org/#scheme is more in line with our SAAS release pace.

Calendar versioning is absolute and neutral, and conveys more information than arbitrary numbers, as people are naturally calendar-oriented. Users can immediately state that their "2021.3.0" version is state of the art. It also leads to a better understanding on why upgrading from a "2019.1.0" to a "2021.3.0" can cost you some project time.