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7 Version Numbers and Releases
9 Curl is not only curl. Curl is also libcurl. They're actually individually
10 versioned, but they mostly follow each other rather closely.
12 The version numbering is always built up using the same system:
17 X is main version number
21 One of these numbers will get bumped in each new release. The numbers to the
22 right of a bumped number will be reset to zero. If Z is zero, it may not be
23 included in the version number.
25 The main version number will get bumped when *really* big, world colliding
26 changes are made. The release number is bumped when changes are performed or
27 things/features are added. The patch number is bumped when the changes are
30 It means that after release 1.2.3, we can release 2.0 if something really big
31 has been made, 1.3 if not that big changes were made or 1.2.4 if mostly bugs
34 Bumping, as in increasing the number with 1, is unconditionally only
35 affecting one of the numbers (except the ones to the right of it, that may be
36 set to zero). 1 becomes 2, 3 becomes 4, 9 becomes 10, 88 becomes 89 and 99
37 becomes 100. So, after 1.2.9 comes 1.2.10. After 3.99.3, 3.100 might come.
39 All original curl source release archives are named according to the libcurl
40 version (not according to the curl client version that, as said before, might
43 As a service to any application that might want to support new libcurl
44 features while still being able to build with older versions, all releases
45 have the libcurl version stored in the curl/curlver.h file using a static
46 numbering scheme that can be used for comparison. The version number is
49 #define LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM 0xXXYYZZ
51 Where XX, YY and ZZ are the main version, release and patch numbers in
52 hexadecimal. All three number fields are always represented using two digits
53 (eight bits each). 1.2 would appear as "0x010200" while version 9.11.7
54 appears as "0x090b07".
56 This 6-digit hexadecimal number is always a greater number in a more recent
57 release. It makes comparisons with greater than and less than work.
59 This number is also available as three separate defines:
60 LIBCURL_VERSION_MAJOR, LIBCURL_VERSION_MINOR and LIBCURL_VERSION_PATCH.