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Versioning
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As the Corda platform evolves and new features are added it becomes important to have a versioning system which allows
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its users to easily compare versions and know what feature are available to them. Each Corda release uses the standard
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semantic versioning scheme of ``major.minor.patch``. This is useful when making releases in the public domain but is not
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friendly for a developer working on the platform. It first has to be parsed and then they have three separate segments on
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which to determine API differences. The release version is still useful and every MQ message the node sends attaches it
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to the ``release-version`` header property for debugging purposes.
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It is much easier to use a single incrementing integer value to represent the API version of the Corda platform, which
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is called the Platform Version. It is similar to Android's `API Level <https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html>`_.
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It starts at 1 and will increment by exactly 1 for each release which changes any of the publicly exposed APIs in the
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entire platform. This includes public APIs on the node itself, the RPC system, messaging, serialisation, etc. API backwards
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compatibility will always be maintained, with the use of deprecation to migrate away from old APIs. In rare situations
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APIs may have to be removed, for example due to security issues. There is no relationship between the Platform Version
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and the release version - a change in the major, minor or patch values may or may not increase the Platform Version.
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The Platform Version is part of the node's ``NodeInfo`` object, which is available from the ``ServiceHub``. This enables
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a CorDapp to find out which version it's running on and determine whether a desired feature is available. When a node
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registers with the Network Map Service it will use the node's Platform Version to enforce a minimum version requirement
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for the network.
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.. note:: A future release may introduce the concept of a target platform version, which would be similar to Android's
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``targetSdkVersion``, and would provide a means of maintaining behavioural compatibility for the cases where the
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platform's behaviour has changed. |