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Other notes: 13.1 is not a "minor" release, it's simply the second release in 2013. We generally release twice a year; the first one is called [20]xx.0 and the second is [20]yy.1. I can't comment on the RTL viewer but if you file a mysupport with screenshots of the old and the new, perhaps the relevant team could make some improvements. And while no Altera software supports Windows 8 (yet), I'd be surprised if you had trouble running 13.0 on W8 since most OSes are pretty good about backwards compatibility. File a bug through mySupport if you run into trouble with that; I'll also check to see if we have any formal plans to validate 13.0 on Win8 and other newer OSes.
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Hi,
this may sound silly from the pure "straight ahead numbering" point of view but maybe just shifting from 13.0 to 13.1 seems to indicate this is a minor change / improved release. Most companies increase the version number index to indicate those minor stuff and to indicate greater changes the (main) version number is increased. Maybe for these changes in the QII Software between 13.0 and 13.1 using the main Version increase Option (calling 13.1 to be 14.0) would have been the better indication (I think for similar changes ALTERA also increased the main version number in the past.) While there is no "common rule for Version numbering" my Feeling is that most of us would think of "Major changes = Version, minor changes = Version index"...
This makes no difference on the Software itself, but - to compare it with Windows - the 13.0 to 13.1 naming would be similar to calling Windows 8 just Windows 7.1, wouldn't it?
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