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Added comment about rewinding the version number to 1.0 for
	the initial release.
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not concerned about providing bug fixes separate from normal
development for the beta version.
<p>Version 1.2 will be the first official HDF5 version. The
version tree will fork at this point with public bug fixes
provided on the 1.2 branch and development will continue on the
1.3 branch.
<p>After the beta release we rolled back the version number so the
first release is version 1.0 and development will continue on
version 1.1. We felt that an initial version of 1.0 was more
important than continuing to increment the pre-release version
numbers.
<h2>4. Public versus Development</h2>
<p>The motivation for separate public and development versions is
that the public version will receive only bug fixes while the
development version will receive new features.
development version will receive new features. This also allows
us to release bug fixes expediently without waiting for the
development version to reach a stable state.
<p>Eventually, the development version will near completion and a
new development branch will fork while the original one enters a
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an error message on the standard error stream and aborts.
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