From 3f31df2297f6be6b143f120a7648c5e9123a5a2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thales Macedo Garitezi <thalesmg@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:06:51 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] docs: add comment explaining application and release vsn
 discrepancy

---
 src/emqx.app.src | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/emqx.app.src b/src/emqx.app.src
index 1c6b05de4..66ab590ca 100644
--- a/src/emqx.app.src
+++ b/src/emqx.app.src
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 {application, emqx,
  [{id, "emqx"},
   {description, "EMQ X"},
+  %% Note: this version is not the same as the release version!  This
+  %% is simply the emqx `application' version, which is separate from
+  %% the emqx `release' version, which in turn is comprised of several
+  %% apps, one of which is this.  See `emqx_release.hrl' for more
+  %% info.
   {vsn, "4.3.14"}, % strict semver, bump manually!
   {modules, []},
   {registered, []},