Hello, According to the OVAL Version Policy ( http://ovalproject.github.io/documentation/policy/versioning/), the version of a Platform Extension looks like: “CORE-MAJOR.CORE-MINOR.CORE-UPDATE:PLAT-MAJOR.PLAT-MINOR.PLAT-UPDATE”. I am trying to find out when does the CORE version portion of a Platform extension change? For instance, the 5.11.2 core was recently released, but none of the core portion of platform extension versions was updated (i.e. windows-definitions-schema.xsd shows <version>5.11.1:1.4</version>). Is this by design? or was it supposed to be updated? Thanks, _Dragos. ...

Hi Dragos, This was by design. There was a discussion by the OVAL board about it, and I summarized our conclusions in issue #281: https://github.com/OVALProject/Language/issues/281 <https://github.com/OVALProject/Language/issues/281> Basically, if there’s no reason that an updated platform schema can’t be used in conjunction with an older base schema (e.g., some new object or state requires a new datatype), then we don’t rev the base schema version. Best regards, —David Solin David A. Solin Co-Founder, Research & Technology solin@jovalcm.com <mailto:solin@jovalcm.com> <http://jovalcm.com/>   <https://www.facebook.com/jovalcm> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/joval-continuous-monitoring> > On Jan 24, 2017, at 2:18 PM, Dragos Prisaca <dragos.prisaca@G2-INC.COM> wrote: > > Hello, > > According to the OVAL Version Policy (http://ovalproject.github.io/documentation/policy/versioning/ <http://ovalproject.github.io/documentation/policy/versioning/>), the version of a Platform Extension looks like: “CORE-MAJOR.CORE-MINOR.CORE-UPDATE:PLAT-MAJOR.PLAT-MINOR.PLAT-UPDATE”. I am trying to find out when does the CORE version portion of a Platform extension change? > > For instance, the 5.11.2 core was recently released, but none of the core portion of platform extension versions was updated (i.e. windows-definitions-schema.xsd shows <version>5.11.1:1.4</version>). Is this by design? or was it supposed to be updated? > > Thanks, > _Dragos. > > > ... > _______________________________________________ > OVAL_Developer mailing list > OVAL_Developer@lists.cisecurity.org <mailto:OVAL_Developer@lists.cisecurity.org> > http://lists.cisecurity.org/mailman/listinfo/oval_developer_lists.cisecurity.org <http://lists.cisecurity.org/mailman/listinfo/oval_developer_lists.cisecurity.org> ...

Thank you David! It makes sense. The info from the issue #281 is a great example to be included to the OVAL Version Policy ( http://ovalproject.github.io/documentation/policy/versioning/). Thanks, _Dragos. *From:* David Solin [mailto:solin@jovalcm.com] *Sent:* Thursday, January 26, 2017 12:06 PM *To:* Dragos Prisaca; OVAL Developer List *Subject:* Re: [OVAL DEVELOPER] OVAL Versioning Policy Hi Dragos, This was by design. There was a discussion by the OVAL board about it, and I summarized our conclusions in issue #281: https://github.com/OVALProject/Language/issues/281 Basically, if there’s no reason that an updated platform schema can’t be used in conjunction with an older base schema (e.g., some new object or state requires a new datatype), then we don’t rev the base schema version. Best regards, —David Solin *David A. Solin* Co-Founder, Research & Technology solin@jovalcm.com [image: Joval Continuous Monitoring] <http://jovalcm.com> [image: Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/jovalcm>[image: Linkedin] <https://www.linkedin.com/company/joval-continuous-monitoring> On Jan 24, 2017, at 2:18 PM, Dragos Prisaca <dragos.prisaca@G2-INC.COM> wrote: Hello, According to the OVAL Version Policy ( http://ovalproject.github.io/documentation/policy/versioning/), the version of a Platform Extension looks like: “CORE-MAJOR.CORE-MINOR.CORE-UPDATE:PLAT-MAJOR.PLAT-MINOR.PLAT-UPDATE”. I am trying to find out when does the CORE version portion of a Platform extension change? For instance, the 5.11.2 core was recently released, but none of the core portion of platform extension versions was updated (i.e. windows-definitions-schema.xsd shows <version>5.11.1:1.4</version>). Is this by design? or was it supposed to be updated? Thanks, _Dragos. ... _______________________________________________ OVAL_Developer mailing list OVAL_Developer@lists.cisecurity.org http://lists.cisecurity.org/mailman/listinfo/oval_developer_lists.cisecurity.org ...