Instead of one large release a year with 2 Early Adopter releases for beta
testing, SQL Developer (along with SQLcl, SQL Developer Data Modeler and SOON
to include ORDS) - the product will be released on a quarterly basis.
You can expect quicker releases with more incremental feature updates.
This starts with yesterday's release of version 17.2.
The versioning follows this pattern:
Versioning - 17.2.0.184.0917
17 - Year
2 - Quarter
0 - Patch #
184 - Day in Julian
0917 - hour & minute the build was done
Jeff
PS There are a couple of new features/tweaks. I talk about them here
http://www.thatjeffsmith.com/archive/2017/07/sql-developer-v17-2-is-now-available/
PPS For SQLcl, the major new feature is a performance bump for running your
scripts. As an example we got an APEX install down from about 18 minutes down
to 7 minutes - which is faster than SQL*Plus can do it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:gogala.mladen@xxxxxxxxx] ;
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2017 9:38 PM
To: Tim Gorman <tim.evdbt@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: New SQL*Developer version numbers
Hi Tim!
Year based releases? What a marvelously elegant idea! Release "Oracle SQL
Server 2018" would avoid all the problems of the unlucky number 13. Hopefully,
another vendor who also has year based release names, will not release SQL
Server 2018. Maybe they should have an even-odd release system, just like
parking in NYC?
Regards
On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 16:31:19 -0600
Tim Gorman <tim.evdbt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Perhaps Oracle is going to year-based releases?
Neatly sidesteps all the "what comes after Oracle12" nonsense.
On 7/13/17 16:20, Mladen Gogala wrote:
On July the 11th, there was an update to SQL*Developer and SQLcl. The
previous version was 4.2. Now, I see this:
SQLcl: Release 17.2.0 Production on Thu Jul 13 18:16:30 2017
Copyright (c) 1982, 2017, Oracle. All rights reserved.
SQL>
Version "17.2"? Really? How did that happen? The same applies to
SQL*Developer. Functionality is still pretty much the same, I haven't
encountered any problems yet.
Regards
