Software Versioning
Software versioning for the end consumer is a very vital part of the software release cycle. It is one of the primary identifiers for consumers to report issues against in a software. It also helps the development team to identify, if the features/bug fix made it through the release. We follow a similar pattern, which can be useful for you too. The version number is strongly tied to the SVN (also valid for other version control systems) branching and tagging convention. Hudson (CI server) also plays an important role in stamping the build number.