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  | |  | Production release of MySql 4.1 | Production release of MySql 4.1 2004-07-01 - By Paul DuBois
Back At 14:09 -0700 6/30/04, Jon Frisby wrote:
>As I understand it, the particular cycle a release is in depends on how long
>it 's been since a major bug was reported. So an alpha becomes a beta if
>nobody reports a major bug after N days, and a beta becomes a production
>release if goes N days without a major bug report. Thus, even if 4.1.3 is
>released as alpha, it could retroactively be declared beta, and then even
No, once a given version is released, it doesn 't get changed retroactively.
Either a 4.1.3a release would be done, or a 4.1.4 release would be done.
>release -- although that 's pretty unlikely. The long and short of it
>though, is that nobody can tell you how long until 4.1 will go beta.
Well, 4.1.3 has been announced today as a -beta release, so we all know
the answer to this now. :-)
>
>-JF
>
> > -- --Original Message-- --
> > From: Jonathan Soong [mailto:jon.soong@(protected)]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:20 PM
> > To: Jocelyn Fournier
> > Cc: John Murphy; Emmanuel van der Meulen; mysql@(protected)
> > Subject: Re: Production release of MySql 4.1
> >
> > Jocelyn Fournier wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > AFAIK 4.1.3 should be beta.
> > >
> >
> > It is a little frustrating,
> >
> > at Linux Conf Adelaide 2004 (January), the Mysql guy there
> > said that 4.1
> > would be in beta, in the next few weeks ...
> >
> > Its now July and its still in Alpha.
> >
> > It says on the webpage "MySQL 4.1 -- Alpha release (use this for new
> > development) " - and it has said that for 6months+
> >
> > So we did our development on 4.1, and were expecting it to be beta by
> > February 2004.
> >
> > We 're ready to roll it out as soon as it hits beta, i told my boss it
> > would be in beta by March 2004 at the latest. We now have hardware
> > sitting for around with 4.1 alpha on it that cannot be deployed.
> >
> > Does anyone actually have a concrete date when 4.1 will go into beta?
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Jon
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Paul DuBois, MySQL Documentation Team
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
MySQL AB, www.mysql.com
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