I wanted to make you aware of a small change that we have recently made to the way that we refer to “interim” releases of the SDI (Synergy DBL Integration for Visual Studio) product.

A few years ago, it became clear that we needed to be able to release our Visual Studio Integration tools on a more frequent cadence than the main Synergy/DE product. So we started doing interim releases that we referred to as “Developer Builds.” Each developer build was identified both by a version number and a build number.

Initially, these builds were often not subject to the same levels of stringent testing that a build for a full release would be, and we made that clear to customers. But now, thanks to considerable improvements in our automated testing processes, these interim builds are now subject to the same levels of inspection and testing as a build for a full release, and it is no longer necessary to discriminate between developer- and full-builds.

For this reason, we have decided to stop referring to these releases as “Developer Builds,” they are now all just “SDI Releases,” which will continue to occur on a much more frequent cadence than Synergy/DE.