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[ppslim]

This is not true. The version numbers convention works on a major minor basis. It depends which of these are odd or even that states the status of it.

At the end of the 1.4 series, major steps where taken.

A whole new version (1.5) and a development plan was formed.

According to tcl-commands.doc, the version numbering is as follows.

numversion
Value: the current numeric bot version (for example: "1010201").
Numerical version is in the format of "MNNRRPP", where:
M major release number
NN minor release number
RR sub-release number
PP patch level for that sub-release

The above, in the way we normaly see it is.
N.MM.RR+PP

However, the +PP isn't normaly there, and will only apply to the likes of the IPv6 patch, or inbetween versions.

Only when the "Minor release number" is ODD, is it a development release.

As such, 1.6 is even, and is considered stable. 1.5 and 1.7 are odd, so where/are beta/alpha quality.

All 1.6.x bots are considered stable, unless a specific message says so (IE, the issue with 1.6.11 cause major socks problems).

[Dereckson]

The parameter is to set in eggdrop.h