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point release

noun

Definitions

  1. A software release that is only slightly different from a previous version and thus…

    A software release that is only slightly different from a previous version and thus having the same major version number, only differing in minor version number (after the decimal point).

    • Between 2.0 and 3.0, there were four point releases, called 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4.
    • The company will fix the crashing issue in an upcoming point release.
    • No one is 100 percent sure how long Leopard took, since Apple whispered its name only just last year, but if it is "just a point release," then it should have been much easier to Q/A.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for point release. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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