[2020] Zach Metcalf (Software Manager at Blizzard): "You guys realize this is still patch 1.44 right?"

I tend to manage our branches, in this case Overwatch League will be using “1.44.1.0”. It was intentional that they were downstream of all 1.44 live changes.

The final digit in our branches is used when we have a patch that is not protocol/data compatible with what is already released. That was the case for this mid cycle bug fix and balance update, so it became “1.44.0.1”.

In practice, because we do a “major” revision about once a month, we don’t end up having too many cases where we need the last 2 digits for the branch. When we do have cases like this it’s sort of confusing for the team (for people who don’t look at branch details every day).

We could probably be more clever but we have a pretty significant build infrastructure built around this convention, so for now it’s not changing. :)

Cheers