Versioning scheme

How to read

Every release carries several version numbers, depending on what kind of build the release is based on.

Public builds

Releases for public Fallout 76 builds have two version numbers:

1. the version of the scripts that generated the dumps, and
2. the version of Fallout 76 that the dumps were generated for.

For example, release v1.2.0-v1.1.4.3 used v1.2.0 of the scripts to generate dumps for v1.1.4.3 of the game.

PTS builds

Releases for PTS Fallout 76 builds have three version numbers:

1. the version of the scripts that generated the dumps,
2. the version of the public Fallout 76 build that preceded this PTS build, and
3. the version of the PTS Fallout 76 build that the dumps were generated for.

For example, release v2.3.0-v1.3.1.26-v0.2.405.6 used v2.3.0 of the scripts to generate dumps for v0.2.405.6 of the game, which is a PTS build that succeeded public build v1.3.1.26.

How it's used

Whenever the scripts are improved (for example to add a new type of dump or to fix a bug in the scripts) the dump code version is incremented and all dumps are regenerated for the same Fallout 76 version as the previous release.

Similarly, when a new version of Fallout 76 is released, the previous release's scripts are used to recreate all the dumps.

Because only one of the two versions changes between each release, it is easy to see whether a change in the dumps was caused by an update in the scripts or by a change in the game.