point release

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point release (plural point releases)

  1. (software) 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.
    • 2007 November 29, Oliver Rist, “Leopard is the New Vista, and It's Pissing Me Off”, in PC Mag‎:
      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.
    • 2014 April 11, Ewan Spence, “Apple Loop: iOS 7 Adoption, The $350 iWatch, US Market Share, MacBook Air Predictions, And Jony Ive”, in Forbes‎:
      Recent data from their own Developer Support Site shows 87% of iOS devices are now running a version of iOS 7, and 58% of devices are running the latest point release of iOS 7.1.
    • 2015 August 26, Jon Brodkin, “VMware brings Windows 10 and graphics boost to Fusion and Workstation”, in Ars Technica‎:
      VMware confirmed the bug to us yesterday and said it will not be fixed in the initial version going out to customers today. It will be fixed in a point release later on.

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