Hello Abdullah, The reason that Rails Core Team did 6.0.2.1 and not 6.0.3 because 6.0.2.1 is pretty much a forked branch out of 6.0.2 with a security patch applied on top of it.
In the past, the patched version came off a stable branch (such as 6-0-stable) and contain other changes that had unintended consequence such as uncaught regression, breaking the applications and people had to monkey-patch their Rails to get the security fix in instead of able to just upgrade to the new version. I believe this approach is the best of both world, as if you were on 6.0.2 you can be sure that your app should still work after upgrading to 6.0.2.1 as they are pretty much the same. Maybe we need to add more documentation about the security version to our guides, if we are missing the explanation on why we are doing it this way. I hope this help. -Prem On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 11:10 PM Abdullah Esmail <abdullah.esm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello there, > First I would like to thank the core team for the amazing work they've > been doing. > It's amazing to see how stable and mature rails has become year over year. > > With the latest release, currently 6.0.2.1, I was trying to figure out why > it was 6.0.2.1 and not 6.0.3. > Looking at the guides, I did not find what the ".1" after the tiny version > means. > > However, I remember a few years back reading something about it being for > unplanned severe security releases or something like this. > Still, personally I still feel like it's easier to increase the tiny > version instead of adding an additional part. > > This is just how I feel. If there is an explanation of the current > versioning that I'm missing, please let me know. > > Thank you so much for this amazing framework. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-core/8602d8ea-f5fa-4dc9-a9b2-5cb50c991a1c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-core/8602d8ea-f5fa-4dc9-a9b2-5cb50c991a1c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-core/CAG_6CsPPfAZGN%3D1rNR60mOMzA%3DCZJZtGHZWF-u4Z5TBahuV9hQ%40mail.gmail.com.
