[Qemu-devel] [Bug 1650175] Re: wrong version in 2.8.0-rc03

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

This is intentional and is the way that QEMU release candidates are
versioned.

The versioning scheme is MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH where:

0 >= PATCH < 90 is a stable release
PATCH = 90 is the development window for the next MINOR release
91 >= PATCH <= 99 is a release candidate for the next MINOR release

This means 2.7.93 is release candidate 3 for 2.8.

I suppose one reason this scheme has been used is that simple
MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH version comparison algorithms will work correctly even
if they do not support -rcN notation.

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Title:
  wrong version in 2.8.0-rc03

Status in QEMU:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  When you compile qemu the version still 2.7.93 instead 2.8.0-rc03

  build/config-host.mak:VERSION=2.7.93

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