Automation Engine Version Indicators

The technical version names provide information about a Automic product's current version. It is expressed in three main segments.

New Features Only in Major and Minor Versions of All Automic Software

Automic recommends that you always install the latest Service Pack or Hotfix. Both contain valuable corrections and bug fixes between Major and Minor Releases, where new features and enhancements are introduced.

Major Release: This is the main version of a software release. It is identified by the first segment of the entire version number (such as the 10 in 10.0.0).
Minor Release: This includes new features, modifications and corrections that may contain major changes such as databaseA database is an organized collection of data including relevant data structures. modifications. It is identified by the second segment of the entire version number (such as the 2 in 11.2.0).

Major and Minor releases for Automation Engine are feature releases supplied at 9-month intervals.
Service Pack: This is a patch for a release and contains corrections for errors. New features or modifications are not included. Service packs are identified by the third segment of the entire version number (such as the 2 in 10.0.2).
Hotfix: This is a minor sub-release to remove malfunctions and defects. Hotfixes are indicated by an HF number after the version number (such as the 1 in 10.0.2 HF 1).

Service Packs and Hotfixes are maintenance releases supplied at 4-month intervals.

Automation Engine Versioning as of Version 10

Pre-Releases are identified by a hyphen ("-") plus an abbreviation (such as -dev for a developer build or -beta for a beta version. This additional information is inserted between the Service-Pack number and the hotfix number. Pre-Releases are versions that are not intended for productive operation.

Major Release (main version)	Minor Release	Service Pack (patch)	Pre-Release (optional)	Hotfix (build number)
xx.	yy.	zz	-dev -beta	+build.nnn

Automation Engine Versioning before Version 10

Versions that are not intended for productive operation have individual names (such as beta release).

Version

Hotfix Number

Service Pack

Main Version	Hotfix Number
9.00A	xxx-xxx

The last but one digit of the hotfix number (xxx-xxx) indicates whether a particular component is included in a Service Pack and in which one it is included. Each Service Pack is numbered in a consecutive ascending order:

Main Version	Hotfix Number	Service Pack
8.00A	xxx-x1x	Service Pack 1
8.00A	xxx-x2x	Service Pack 2
9.00A	xxx-x2x	Service Pack 1
9.00A	xxx-x3x	Service Pack 2