"point release" meaning in English

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        {
          "text": "Between 2.0 and 3.0, there were four point releases, called 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The company will fix the crashing issue in an upcoming point release.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 November 29, Oliver Rist, “Leopard is the New Vista, and It's Pissing Me Off”, in PC Mag",
          "text": "No one is 100 percent sure how long Leopard took, since Apple whispered its name only just last year, but if it is \"just a point release,\" then it should have been much easier to Q/A.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 April 11, Ewan Spence, “Apple Loop: iOS 7 Adoption, The $350 iWatch, US Market Share, MacBook Air Predictions, And Jony Ive”, in Forbes",
          "text": "Recent data from their own Developer Support Site shows 87% of iOS devices are now running a version of iOS 7, and 58% of devices are running the latest point release of iOS 7.1.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 August 26, Jon Brodkin, “VMware brings Windows 10 and graphics boost to Fusion and Workstation”, in Ars Technica",
          "text": "VMware confirmed the bug to us yesterday and said it will not be fixed in the initial version going out to customers today. It will be fixed in a point release later on.",
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        "A software release that is only slightly different from a previous version and thus having the same major version number, only differing in minor version number (after the decimal point)."
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          "slightly"
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          "different"
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        "(software) A software release that is only slightly different from a previous version and thus having the same major version number, only differing in minor version number (after the decimal point)."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "dot release"
        }
      ],
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        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences",
        "software"
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          "text": "Between 2.0 and 3.0, there were four point releases, called 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "The company will fix the crashing issue in an upcoming point release.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 November 29, Oliver Rist, “Leopard is the New Vista, and It's Pissing Me Off”, in PC Mag",
          "text": "No one is 100 percent sure how long Leopard took, since Apple whispered its name only just last year, but if it is \"just a point release,\" then it should have been much easier to Q/A.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 April 11, Ewan Spence, “Apple Loop: iOS 7 Adoption, The $350 iWatch, US Market Share, MacBook Air Predictions, And Jony Ive”, in Forbes",
          "text": "Recent data from their own Developer Support Site shows 87% of iOS devices are now running a version of iOS 7, and 58% of devices are running the latest point release of iOS 7.1.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 August 26, Jon Brodkin, “VMware brings Windows 10 and graphics boost to Fusion and Workstation”, in Ars Technica",
          "text": "VMware confirmed the bug to us yesterday and said it will not be fixed in the initial version going out to customers today. It will be fixed in a point release later on.",
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        }
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        "A software release that is only slightly different from a previous version and thus having the same major version number, only differing in minor version number (after the decimal point)."
      ],
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          "slightly"
        ],
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          "different"
        ],
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          "previous",
          "previous"
        ],
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        "(software) A software release that is only slightly different from a previous version and thus having the same major version number, only differing in minor version number (after the decimal point)."
      ],
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        "computing",
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dot release"
    }
  ],
  "word": "point release"
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