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	Sally MacFarlane





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Last updated: Aug 26, 2021










The general philosophy behind Besu release numbering is as follows.
We bump the milestone when a release is big enough (such as full Mainnet compliance).
We do a quarterly release where we upgrade all dependencies with a RC release.
Feature development is done on the main branch in GitHub. Significant features should include a feature flag so that the feature can be disabled by default.
We don’t do feature branches.
We do patch releases on a fortnightly cadence to allow access to bug fixes without delay.


As for numbering itself, the following approach is used:
	"Major Version" means a version of the Software identified by a change in the digit to the left of the left-most decimal point (X.x.x).
	"Minor Version" means a version of the Software identified by a change in the middle number in between the two decimal points (x.X.x).
	"Maintenance Version" means a version of the Software identified by a change in the digit to the right of the rightmost decimal point (x.x.X).
	We are not using semantic versioning. 








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