Questions tagged [version]

Version defines an unique state of a computer software or a file.

Versions and version control systems are widely used in software industry to keep track of different versions of a piece of software.

Following processes and techniques are often used in computer software engineering to keep track of different versions:

Software versioning is the process of assigning either unique version names or unique version numbers to unique states of computer software.

At a fine-grained level, revision control is often used for keeping track of incrementally different versions of electronic information, whether or not this information is actually computer software.

One of the forms of revision control is a versioning file system. Such a system is any computer file system which allows a computer file to exist in several versions at the same time.

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how to check redis instance version?

how to check Redis server version? I've found in Redis site this command: $ redis-server and that should give me (according to the site): [28550] 01 Aug 19:29:28 # Warning: no config file specified, using the default config. In order to specify a…
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How to display the app version in Angular?

How do I display the app version in angular application? the version should be taken from package.json file { "name": "angular-app", "version": "0.0.1", ... } In angular 1.x, I have this html:

<%=version %>

In angular, this is not…
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Maven check for updated dependencies in repository

Is there a Maven plugin that allows you to check if there are newer versions of dependencies available in the repository? Say, you are using dependency X with version 1.2. Now a new version of X is released with version 1.3. I'd like to know, based…
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Difference between Eclipse Europa, Helios, Galileo

What is the difference between versions of Eclipse (Europa, Helios, Galileo)? Which is the best for desktop application?
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Node - was compiled against a different Node.js version using NODE_MODULE_VERSION 51

I am running a node application on terminal. Have recently upgraded to node v8.5.0, but am getting this error: Error: The module '/tidee/tidee-au/packages/tidee-au-server/node_modules/bcrypt/lib/binding/bcrypt_lib.node' was compiled against a…
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How to do version numbers?

My company is building a product. It's going to be versioned by SVN. It's a webapp so basically there will never be a version out which doesn't have some features in them and thus could always be labeled as beta. But since it's going to be a…
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Installing older version of R package

I am trying to use Rpy2 and ggplot2 but I get an error. After some searching for the error online, I found that the error occurs because there are changes in the ggplot2 package that are not yet reflected in Rpy2 (for example, see this post (Edit:…
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How to determine the Boost version on a system?

Is there a quick way to determine the version of the Boost C++ libraries on a system?
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java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: Bad version number in .class file?

I am getting this error when I include an opensource library that I had to compile from source. Now, all the suggestions on the web indicate that the code was compiled in one version and executed in another version (new on old). However, I only…
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How do I list all versions of a gem available at a remote site?

I'm trying to find out all the remotely available versions of a specified gem. I tried using: gem list rhc --remote But it shows: *** REMOTE GEMS *** rhc (0.84.15) rhcp (0.2.18) rhcp_shell (0.2.12) Any ideas?
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How to check SQL Server version

What are the possible ways to determine the deployed SQL Server version? I’ve tried to do it using the SQL Server software. I want to do it using a command line SQL statement.
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Better way of incrementing build number?

I have been using a shell script as part of my Xcode build process to increment the build number within the plist file, however it's making Xcode 4.2.1 crash frequently (with an error about the target not belonging to a project; I'm guessing the…
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Compare version numbers without using split function

How do I compare version numbers? For instance: x = 1.23.56.1487.5 y = 1.24.55.487.2
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SVN upgrade working copy

I cannot do a SVN commit. I get this error: org.apache.subversion.javahl.ClientException: The working copy needs to be upgraded svn: Working copy 'C:\.... is too old (format 10, created by Subversion 1.6) How can it be fixed?
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What's the difference between odd and even Java updates?

I have JDK 8u60 installed. I checked the Oracle website today and they have released two versions simultaneously: 8u65 and 8u66. Both are public release versions. Why did they release two versions simultaneously? What conditions/reasons would make…
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