Maintenance release

A maintenance release (also minor release or Maintenance Pack or MP) is a release of a product that does not add new features or content. For instance, in computer software, maintenance releases are typically intended to solve minor problems, typically "bugs" or security issues.

Example of minor version numbering

The somewhat unusual version number "3.0.5a" was used for a minor release of KDE because of a lack of version numbers. Work on KDE 3.1 had already started and, up to that day, the release coordinator used version numbers such as 3.0.5, 3.0.6 internally in the main CVS repository to mark snapshots of the upcoming 3.1. Then after 3.0.3, a number of important and unexpected bug fixes (starting from 3.0.4) suddenly became necessary, leading to a conflict, because 3.0.5 was at this time already in use. More recent KDE release cycles have tagged pre-release snapshots with large revision numbers, such as 3.1.95, to avoid such conflicts.

gollark: https://qntm.org/hypercomputer
gollark: Hacking time is easy, you can do that off a bunch of potatoes wired together.
gollark: I could genuinely believe that Lyric didn't now how they worked but "reinvented" it.
gollark: They are like regular computers but magic and faster because they do computing in parallel universes which is totally how it works.
gollark: Yes, that is how quantum computers work.

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