Release Naming Convention

RELEASE NAMING CONVENTION:

Normally, the X-Pedition product family supports two active release lines. The older line is always in maintenance only mode and receives only maintenance improvements—the newer line receives maintenance improvements and introduces new features. For a brief time, however, the X-Pedition will support a special third line—E9.0.8. This line introduces the Security Attack Monitor (SAM) feature on the E9.0 code base. E9.0.8 is a maintenance only line with end of maintenance scheduled for December 2003.

The new E9.0.8 line does not alter the maintenance only characteristics of the E9.0.7.X releases as no new features including SAM will be introduced in this line. SAM will be incorporated into the normal development line in release E9.1.8.0.

E9.0 is the maintenance only line to which only bug fixes are provided. E9.1 is the development line that receives new features and bug fixes. The figure below illustrates the relationships between these lines. Support for E9.0 as the maintenance only line and E9.1 as the development line will be extended briefly beyond that shown below to permit the release of E9.1.8.0.

E9.0.8

E9.0

Except E9.0.8

E9.1

Maintenance Only

August	December
2003	2003

Maintenance Only

Development Maintenance Only

E9.2	Development		Maintenance Only
E9.2
December	September	June	March
2002	2003	2004	2005

EOD or “end of development” signifies the point at which no new features will be added to the release line. EOM or “end of maintenance” signifies the point where bug fixes are no longer applied to the line.

The naming convention is as follows. E<R1>.<R2>.<D>.<M>

Where:

R1 – Release line digit 1

R2 – Release line digit 2

D – A release during the development period

M – A release during the maintenance-only period

10/02/03 P/N: 9038090-53

Subject to Change Without Notice

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