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What is the difference between build and release?

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BUILD: is a number given to installable software that is given to testing team for testing by the development team. Build number assigned are incremental and sequential.

RELEASE: is a number given to installable software that is handed over to customer by the developer or tester.
The information of build, release and version are displayed in software help page. Using this build and release customer can let the customer team know which release version build thet are using.

eg "9.4.123.2" (Release Number.Version Number.Build Number.Patch Number)

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