Changes to Versioning Policies for Dr.Sum and MotionBoard

With the recent major releases for MotionBoard and Dr.Sum, we have decided to slightly modify our versioning policies to make it easier to distinguish between hotfixes and regular patch releases. More specifically, the affected products are as follows:

MotionBoard

• MotionBoard 5.6, 5.7
• MotionBoard for Dr.Sum EA 5.6, 5.7
• MotionBoard for Dr.Sum 5.7

Dr.Sum (5.0)

• Dr.Sum
• Dr.Sum DataLoader
• Dr.Sum TextOLAP
• Dr.Sum Datalizer

Dr. Sum EA (4.2)

• Dr.Sum EA
• Dr.Sum EA DataLoader
• Dr.Sum EA TextOLAP
• Dr.Sum EA Datalizer

Versioning Policy Template

All affected products will be adapting the following versioning format. Please note that versioning policy for the patch releases (ZZZZ) has been re-defined as below. 

XX.YY.WW.ZZZZ

• XX: Major Releases. Incremented by one for every major release.
• YY: Minor Releases. Incremented by one for every minor release.
• WW: Service Pack Releases. Incremented by one for every service pack release.
• ZZZZ: Patch Releases. Definitions differ depending on the version. See sections below.

Changes for the current and future releases of MotionBoard and Dr.Sum (including MotionBoard 5.7 and Dr.Sum 5.0)

The versioning policy for patch releases (ZZZZ) is as follows:

• Incremented by 10 for every normal patch released;
• Incremented by 1 for every hotfix released.

Changes for Dr.Sum 4.2

The versioning policy for patch releases (ZZZZ) is as follows:

• Incremented by 1 for every patch released, regardless if it's a hotfix or not.
• In addition, the release notes for these products will see the addition of date (YYMMDD) and time (HHMM). As such the exact template on its release notes would be:
  XX.YY.WW.ZZZZ.YYMMDDHHMM

Changes for MotionBoard 5.6

The versioning policy for patch releases (ZZZZ) is as follows:

• Incremented by 1 for every patch released, regardless if it's a hotfix or not.
• In addition, the release notes for these products will see the addition of date (YYYYMMDD) and the build number (xx). As such the exact template on its release notes would be:
  XX.YY.WW.ZZZZ.YYYYMMDD.xx

 Product Version and Patch Version

This policy change will be applicable for following product and patch versions: 

 (*1) The patches for Dr.Sum, Dr.Sum DataLoader, Dr.Sum TextOLAP 5.0 and Dr.Sum Datalizer 5.0 are unified in a single installer. The version of the installer shows as "DrSum5.0.00.xxxx.yyyy.exe" where xxxx indicates version number for Dr.Sum/Dr.Sum DataLoader/Dr.Sum TextOLAP and yyyy indicates the version number for Datalizer. This versioning policy will be applied in the release note and patch version appearance.

(*2) This patch has not been released as of 15th December, 2017.

(Updated on 15th December, 2017)