Release Schedule
Current Year - 2024
January
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February
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March
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April
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May
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June
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9101112131415
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July
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78910111213
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August
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September
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22232425262728
2930 
October
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November
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December
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Todays Date.
Work on next version in progress.
First Beta of first stable for the year.
Second Beta of first stable for the year.
Begin preparations for release of first stable for the year.
First stable version of the year released during this week.
First Beta of second stable for the year.
Second Beta of second stable for the year.
Begin preparations for release of second stable for the year.
Second stable version of the year released during this week.

During the work in progress phase, PATCH versions could be released at any time. These are to fix bugs only and will not require beta testing.



Cheetah Versioning Scheme

Cheetahs current versioning scheme is subject to change.

Cheetah is currently using the Semantic Versioning (SemVer) Specification. To summarize it is like this.

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

  1. MAJOR version when incompatible changes are made.
  2. MINOR version functionality in a backwards compatible manner is added or changed, and
  3. PATCH version when backwards compatible bug fixes are made.

Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.

The MINOR version number will be the number most often increased. Most releases will have enhancements or new features as well as bug fixes.

The PATCH version number will be increased if i release a version that has ONLY bug fixes and nothing else. Patch versions will not require any beta testing.

I intend to update Cheetah in a continuous manner rather than sitting down and developing a completely new version that is completely different than the previous one. Thus, the first(MAJOR) version number will likely never increase.

As such, the current versioning system is not really appropriate. A better, more appropriate versioning system for the manner in which Cheetah will be updated and improved would be to use the Calendar Versioning Scheme. (CalVer). Cheetah may switch to this versioning system at some point in the near future.