3GPP 21.900 v20.0.0 — the document's own text
4.10.3.2 New features
Taught in 3. What a Release is, and what freezing one costs (How standards actually get made, in depth), 4. The change request and the release (How standards actually get made, overview), 3. One idea, from proposal to published text (How standards actually get made, quick start).
New functionality shall be included in the latest, non-frozen, Release. New functionality shall not be included in previous, frozen, Releases. To do so would cause incompatibility amongst instantiations of those Releases. This is illustrated in figure A.
| CR category(see table 4A) | Release1999 | Release4 |
|---|---|---|
| v3.0.0 | ||
| C | ||
| v3.1.0 | ||
| C | ||
| v3.2.0 | ||
| C | ||
| v3.4.0 | ||
| C | ||
| v3.5.0 | ||
| B | ||
| v4.0.0 | ||
| FA | ||
| v3.6.0 | v4.1.0 | |
| C | ||
| v4.2.0 | ||
| C | ||
| v4.3.0 | ||
| FA | ||
| 3.7.0 | 4.4.0 |
Figure A: Introduction and development of new features to the latest Release; and corrections to multiple Releases (example)