feat: update the Kotlin release information and evolution principles #4173
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woainikk
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| The Language Committee makes final decisions on what incompatible changes will be made and what exact measures should be taken to make user updates comfortable. In doing so, it relies on a set of guidelines available [here](https://kotlinfoundation.org/language-committee-guidelines/). | ||
| The Language Committee makes final decisions on what incompatible changes will be made and what exact measures should be taken to make user updates comfortable. | ||
| In doing so, it relies on a set of [Language committee guidelines](https://kotlinfoundation.org/language-committee-guidelines/). | ||
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| ## Feature releases and incremental releases |
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seems incremental releases should be renamed to "tooling releases" as we use that naming below
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Updated everywhere on a page
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| For example, for the feature release 1.3 we had several incremental releases including 1.3.10, 1.3.20, and 1.3.70. | ||
| For 1.3.70, we had 2 bug fix releases – 1.3.71 and 1.3.72. | ||
| > For example, for the feature release 1.8.0, we had only one tooling release 1.8.20, |
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Is it ok that we start that part with "Since Kotlin 2.0.0, we.." and then give an example about 1.8.20?
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Yeah, a bit strange.
Let's comment this tip and bring it back when 2.1.0 will happen.
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| * _Incremental releases_ (1._x_._y_) that are shipped between feature releases and include updates in the tooling, | ||
| performance improvements, and bug fixes. | ||
| * _Bug fix releases_ (1._x_._yz_) that include bug fixes for incremental releases. | ||
| * _Language releases_ (2._x_._0_) that bring major changes in the language. Released once in 6 months. |
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let's add that Language releases also include tooling updates
koshachy
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| Kotlin 1.4.0 is a [feature release](kotlin-evolution.md#feature-releases-and-incremental-releases) and therefore can | |||
| Kotlin 1.4.0 is a [feature release](kotlin-evolution.md#language-and-tooling-releases) and therefore can | |||
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For the record, not sure that we should fix the namen for the previous 1.x.x release.
I fixed the anchors just to be sure that everything works.
woainikk
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…4173) * update: update kotlin-evolution.md * update: update releases.md * update: update wording * update: review fixes, anchor fixes * fix: fix one more anchor
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…4173) * update: update kotlin-evolution.md * update: update releases.md * update: update wording * update: review fixes, anchor fixes * fix: fix one more anchor
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KT-67865 [Docs][K2] update Kotlin Release Page
KT-67944 [Docs][K2][IDE] Update IDE support description for K2