Are the version numbers backwards?

[BrandyWine]

Shouldn't community version number be ahead of the business version number?

Ref: (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=36815.0)

The business edition has a slower release cycle but each release is less likely to introduce bugs or break functionality.

Take for example Firefox, I run beta on android, into v145 now, but stable release is still at 143. FF beta's have new features to try out, which may or may not work 100%.

OPNsense does not follow this model?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

OPNsense major version numbers are built from the year and month of release.

Community versions are released in January and July, e.g. 25.1 and 25.7.

In April and October business releases are forked from the then stable community release, so 25.10 is based on 25.7.x for a suitable value of x. Then while 25.7 will receive more updates including major features and changes 25.10 stays more or less static and receives mostly bug fixes. The development on 25.7 will culminate in a new 26.1 from which a business 26.4 will be forked in April.

HTH,
Patrick

[BrandyWine]

Wow, that's a odd scheme............   for what I am used to in world of versioning.
But thanks for that explanation.

[Patrick M. Hausen]

That's exactly like e.g. Ubuntu does it with LTS releases in between shorter lived ones.

[franco]

> Wow, that's a odd scheme............

Not really. The alternatives are all worse for various reasons.


Cheers,
Franco