Arches Release Process

Starting with version 4.1.0, the Arches team will begin making available both feature (minor) and patch (micro) releases on a regular basis.

Feature Releases

Feature releases will introduce significant, new features to Arches and will be announced approximately every 6 months. Feature releases may contain schema or API changes that may not be compatible with the previous feature release. Each feature release will be incremented with the pattern a.b, where a represents the major release and b represents the feature (aka minor) release. Each feature release will be placed in its own branch in git, named with its release number followed by an x representing the latest patch release. (e.g. stable/a.b.x).

Patch Releases

Following each feature release we will resolve bugs, performance, and security issues in the most recent feature release with patch releases. A new patch release, if needed, will be announced every 1 to 3 months and will not include breaking changes with the previous patch release. Therefore, we encourage users to stay up-to-date with these releases. Patch releases will be incremented as such: a.a.b, a.a.c… with a representing the feature release and b and c representing patch (aka micro) releases. In Git each patch release will identified in its feature release branch with a tag.

Release Support

We will release patches only for the latest feature release.

Feature Release Schedule:

• 4.1 - User account creation, user profile management (released Jan 2018)

  • 4.1.1 - Bug fixes (released May 2018)

• 4.2 - QA workflow (released June 2018)

• 4.3 - Relaxed graph constraint (released Oct 2018)

• 4.4 - Mobile workflow and plugins (anticipated late Jan 2018)