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diff --git a/winsup/doc/faq-api.xml b/winsup/doc/faq-api.xml index d2aa02950..b52ad22e1 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/faq-api.xml +++ b/winsup/doc/faq-api.xml @@ -278,8 +278,9 @@ shared library. First of all, since October 1998 every Cygwin DLL has been named <literal>cygwin1.dll</literal> and has a 1 in the release name. Additionally, there are DLL major and minor numbers that correspond to the name of the release, and a release number. In other words, -cygwin-1.7.1-2 is <literal>cygwin1.dll</literal>, major version 7, minor -version 1, release 2. +cygwin-2.4.1-1 is <literal>cygwin1.dll</literal>, major version 2, minor +version 4, release 1. -1 is a subrelease number required by the distro +versioning scheme. It's not actually part of the Cygwin DLL version number. </para> <para>The <literal>cygwin1.dll</literal> major version number gets incremented only when a change is made that makes existing software incompatible. For |