What Is GA, RC, M?

Saturday, February 4, 2017

Hi, sometimes for you programmers confuse what is GA, RC1, RC2, M1, M2 etc. And what is that mean? Those code are for versioning purpose. Let's see the explanation from each of it:

GA: General Availability
RC: Release Candidate
M: Milestone Build

Let's see from the bottom first.

Milestone Build are the feature is not complete. Should be vaguely stable (it's more than just a nightly snapshot) but may still have problem.
Release Candidate are probably the feature complete and should pretty stable. There should minor problem.
General Availability are version that developer says it very stable and the feature complete.

There you are, so now you can understand which one should you pick on some plugin.

Hope this helpful 😊