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Given the way Wine versioning works, I wouldn't expect any significant changes from the latest 1.7.x cycle. Wine uses the same versioning system that Linux used
by bcrescimanno 11y ago
Given the way Wine versioning works, I wouldn't expect any significant changes from the latest 1.7.x cycle. Wine uses the same versioning system that Linux used prior to (and perhaps after, I'm not sure) the 3.0 release. The second number represents a stable version if it's even or an unstable development version if it's odd. Odd releases are used to "build up" new features towards an even-numbered release.
- allan_s 11y agoThanks for this information, I was thinking it was following semantic versionning and looking to the changelog I thought it was big changes.
- 0xcde4c3db 11y agoThat convention/development model was dropped with Linux 2.6. Current Linux is essentially still the 2.6 series. Linus just felt silly having the same major version number for ~8 years and has switched to incrementing it whenever the fancy strikes him.