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SONiC Versioning

Daily builds are available for a user based on a latest version of sonic-buildimage.

        SONiC.<branchname>.<bbbb>-<Hash>  
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             Branch Name       Build number

Branch Name - branch name in buildimage
Build number - up to 4 characters indicating official build number, e.g. 135. Incremented on every official build by Jenkins.
Hash - commit ID in buildimage. If there are uncommitted local changes, this field will be "dirty" string.

SONiC follows quarterly release strategy.

                     Minor version  
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        SONiC.<YYYYMM>.<mm>  
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              Major version

Major version - 4 characters indicating release year and 2 characters indicating release month.
Minor version - up to 2 characters indicating patch number.