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Hello all,

I was updating my esp-idf to the lattest version, and so, reading the versions documentation I noticed that the latest version release is
v4.0-rc. But in the getting started documentation there is also available the release-v4.0.

So is the v4.0-rc the newest? When they say release candidate they mean candidate for the stable version?

It's probably a dumb question, but i'm confused.

Thanks guys,

Gardin.

Hi Gardin,

Gardin wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 12:49 pm

So is the v4.0-rc the newest?

Currently this is the newest release.

Gardin wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 29, 2020 12:49 pm

When they say release candidate they mean candidate for the stable version?

This is potential candidate for the stable version. There may be v4.0-rc1, etc.

Regarding "release-v4.0" branch, it is used to add new updates. After certain set of updates is collected and tested, they are labelled with e.g. "v4.0-rc" like above, documented and released.

I've tried to migrate a project from a dev version to v4.0-rc "just to be safe" but I was using some timers API that is not available in v4.0-rc. So I'm back to master.

Now I fully understand the versioning scheme and in case of need I can revert things.

Thanks for the help!

Hi Gardin,

In addition to ESP_Krzychb's excellent explanation, you can find some more documentation about the versioning scheme (and "which version should I use?") here:
https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... sions.html

Angus