Sign Up

Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.

Have an account? Sign In

Have an account? Sign In Now

Sign In

Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.

Sign Up Here

Forgot Password?

Don't have account, Sign Up Here

Forgot Password

Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.

Have an account? Sign In Now

You must login to ask a question.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.

Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.

Sign InSign Up

The Archive Base

The Archive Base Logo The Archive Base Logo

The Archive Base Navigation

  • Home
  • SEARCH
  • About Us
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Search
Ask A Question

Mobile menu

Close
Ask a Question
  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Feed
  • User Profile
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Buy Points
  • Users
  • Help
  • Buy Theme
  • SEARCH
Home/ Questions/Q 949409
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Editorial Team
Asked: May 15, 20262026-05-15T23:23:54+00:00 2026-05-15T23:23:54+00:00

What is a product version? why it changes randomly? For example. Firefox new version

  • 0

What is a product version? why it changes randomly?
For example. Firefox new version is v.3.6.7. their previous version is v.3.6. my doubt is why they don’t use v.3.6.1 instead of using v.3.6.7. Is any specific reason behind this kind of versioning. or they give it randomly.

  • 1 1 Answer
  • 0 Views
  • 0 Followers
  • 0
Share
  • Facebook
  • Report

Leave an answer
Cancel reply

You must login to add an answer.

Forgot Password?

Need An Account, Sign Up Here

1 Answer

  • Voted
  • Oldest
  • Recent
  • Random
  1. Editorial Team
    Editorial Team
    2026-05-15T23:23:54+00:00Added an answer on May 15, 2026 at 11:23 pm

    Each product chooses the versioning strategy differently, but it’s usually something styled in the following manner:

    3.1.1.123456
    
    • major version (big API / behavior incompatibilities; huge new features); example – iPhone 3 vs. iPhone 4
    • minor version (minor new features, speedups, basic API/behavior is unchanged and usually backward compatible); example – iPhone 3 vs. iPhone 3GS
    • release version (bug fixes in a specific minor version)
    • Version control tag or build identifier to quickly match the version string to a version control tag.

    Any of those do not have to be sequential in number – versions can be skipped for any reason.

    • 0
    • Reply
    • Share
      Share
      • Share on Facebook
      • Share on Twitter
      • Share on LinkedIn
      • Share on WhatsApp
      • Report

Sidebar

Ask A Question

Stats

  • Questions 496k
  • Answers 496k
  • Best Answers 0
  • User 1
  • Popular
  • Answers
  • Editorial Team

    How to approach applying for a job at a company ...

    • 7 Answers
  • Editorial Team

    How to handle personal stress caused by utterly incompetent and ...

    • 5 Answers
  • Editorial Team

    What is a programmer’s life like?

    • 5 Answers
  • Editorial Team
    Editorial Team added an answer If you want to avoid the possibility of mistakes, you… May 16, 2026 at 11:41 am
  • Editorial Team
    Editorial Team added an answer Which version of mercurial are you using? If you're still… May 16, 2026 at 11:41 am
  • Editorial Team
    Editorial Team added an answer http://heroku.com/ support the use of MongoMapper against MongoHq. I have… May 16, 2026 at 11:41 am

Trending Tags

analytics british company computer developers django employee employer english facebook french google interview javascript language life php programmer programs salary

Top Members

Related Questions

Product Version: NetBeans IDE 6.8 (Build 200912041610) Java: 1.6.0_17; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 14.3-b01
We are converting our application from using Sql Server Express (let's call this version
Are there any software versioning standards? Or i can change version of my product,
We are using a product called DynamicPDF to generate PDF's on the fly from
I am making changes to an old program written in VC++6. the project resources
We're distributing a Cocoa framework with regular updates. We'll be updating the version numbers
I have a product that I distribute to my clients. Each client needs some
The situation: We're out of beta and version 1.0 has been released to several
I have a product which has around 7 services and one User Interface. Time
We build software using Hudson and Maven. We have C#, java and last, but

Explore

  • Home
  • Add group
  • Groups page
  • Communities
  • Questions
    • New Questions
    • Trending Questions
    • Must read Questions
    • Hot Questions
  • Polls
  • Tags
  • Badges
  • Users
  • Help
  • SEARCH

Footer

© 2021 The Archive Base. All Rights Reserved
With Love by The Archive Base

Insert/edit link

Enter the destination URL

Or link to existing content

    No search term specified. Showing recent items. Search or use up and down arrow keys to select an item.