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The following picture gives an overview of the API versions that an API can go through from inception to release.
The following section describe the details on naming, release assets, and the steps to produce a public-release API version as part of a meta-release.
API release assets & naming conventions
During the development, release preparation and release of an API version, multiple intermediate pre-releases for initial, alpha or release-candidate API versions may be created, and a final public-release API version is created.
A release requires the creation results in of an associated set of API release assets.
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This is illustrated in the following figure:
The following rules shall apply:
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