Doubts on ESP-IDF versioning.

[Gardin]

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.

[ESP_krzychb]

Hi Gardin,

So is the v4.0-rc the newest?

Currently this is the newest release.

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.

[Gardin]

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!

[ESP_Angus]

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