Hi, 10.10.2.0 has all the *new* functionality of 10.9.1.0 and 10.10.1.0. Plus it has more bug fixes than 10.8.3.0, both because the 10.10 branch was pulled from trunk at a later time and because 10.10.2.0 was released later and thus even more fixes were back-ported. It therefore also has more possible incompatibilities to older versions. 10.8.3.0 only has the most important fixes available at the time of release back-ported, and has very few incompatibilities compared to e.g. 10.8.2.
There were some plans to make a 10.9.2 at one time but that fell by the wayside. It would have replaced the 10.8.3.0. Myrna On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:41 AM, Rick Hillegas <rick.hille...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 7/31/14 4:07 AM, Peter Ondruška wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> what is the difference between version 10.10.2.0 and 10.8.3.0? Or why is >> there 10.8.3.0 along with 10.10.2.0? Thanks >> Peter >> > The "Latest Official Releases" tend to be the latest releases produced on > the 2 most active release branches. Once we publish 10.11.1, I expect that > we'll remove 10.8.3.0 from that list. Right after we produce a feature > release, the list has this meaning: > > i) The top release is the most feature-rich distribution. > > ii) The second release is the most stable distribution. > > Hope this helps, > -Rick >
