hi everyone.
can’t find version change principle in unity
which versions is minor and contains only fixes?
which versions contains new features?
Unity still follows the standard version naming convention of major.minor.patch, except they use the target release year as the major number.
For example, if we start at: 2020.2.7
- 2020.2.8 would be a patch.
- 2020.3.x would be a minor release.
- 2021.x.x would be a major release.
(x = any number).
Some versions are also suffixed with a or b. These are alpha and beta releases respectively.
If you have all the time in the world and want to do free product testing for Unity, always download the latest and greatest and expect lots of early-access halfway-completed features.
If on the other hand your time is limited and you want to ship games to paying customers, never go past the LTS release cycle.
But then expect if you encounter any bugs on LTS that Unity tells to move to the TECH release if you want the fix (for one reason or another).
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Using @Vryken 's example above, Tech releases get new features or major feature changes generally in each new “minor” release. So for example 2020.2.0. Each patch release will primarily receive bug fixes, but sometimes you’ll get feature changes. Entirely new features added to a patch release is somewhat unusual.
LTS releases though generally do not contain new features or feature changes, unless they are needed to maintain platform support. Otherwise you’ll see only bug fixes.