point release
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[edit]Noun
[edit]point release (plural point releases)
- (software) A software release that is only slightly different from a previous version and thus having the same major version number, only differing in minor version number (after the decimal point).
- Between 2.0 and 3.0, there were four point releases, called 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4.
- The company will fix the crashing issue in an upcoming point release.
- 2014 April 11, Ewan Spence, “Apple Loop: iOS 7 Adoption, The $350 iWatch, US Market Share, MacBook Air Predictions, And Jony Ive”, in Forbes[2]:
- Recent data from their own Developer Support Site shows 87% of iOS devices are now running a version of iOS 7, and 58% of devices are running the latest point release of iOS 7.1.
- 2015 August 26, Jon Brodkin, “VMware brings Windows 10 and graphics boost to Fusion and Workstation”, in Ars Technica[3]:
- VMware confirmed the bug to us yesterday and said it will not be fixed in the initial version going out to customers today. It will be fixed in a point release later on.
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[edit]- point release on Wikipedia.Wikipedia