User:Jesus Presley/sandbox/Version Color Scheme

Result of my research below

Suggested standard scheme (complete)

Colour	Meaning
Pink #FFC0CB	Old test release; unsupported
Red salmon	Old release; no longer supported
Yellow khaki	Older release; still supported
Green #A0E75A	Current release
Blue skyBlue	Future release
Gold gold	Current test release
Purple Plum	Future test release

Suggested standard scheme (only major version stages)

Colour	Meaning
Red #FF8E82	Old release; no longer supported
Yellow #FCED77	Older release; still supported
Green #A0E75A	Current release
Purple #E6A7E6	Preview or beta release
Blue skyBlue	Future release or developer version

Different color schemes across en:WP

Summary of the colors used in Version history tables

As of Nov. 2012. No unified palette is used, some colors mark different release stages, which is confusing (Purple: test release or future release?)

Collected colors

Colour	Meaning
Red salmon	Former release; no longer supported
Grey silver	Obsolete
Pink #ffc0cb	Former test release
Pink pink	Former test release
Pink	Old test release; unsupported
Yellow khaki	Former release; still supported
Green #a0e75a	Current supported release
Blue skyBlue	Future release
Gold gold	Current test release
Purple #d6b4f1	Future test release
Purple Plum	Future test release
Red #FA8072	Old release; unsupported
Orange #FFA500	Old release; extended support only
Yellow #F0E68C	Old release; supported
Green #A0E75A	Current release
Purple #D6B4F1	Test release
Blue #87CEEB	Future release
Red #fa8072	Prior version outside of Regular Life Cycle
Pink/Beige #ffdead	Discontinued
Green #33DD44	Current
Blue #2fc0ff	Beta
Purple Plum	Future Release
Yellow #f0e68c	Prior version with varying degrees of support
Green #A0E75A	Current version
Blue #87ceeb	Future version
Blue lightblue	Beta release
Purple #d6b4f1	Dev release

Collected info from random software pages

History of Mozilla Thunderbird

Colour	Meaning
Red	Former release; no longer supported
Pink	Former test release
Yellow	Former release; still supported
Green	Current supported release
Blue	Future release
Gold	Current test release
Purple	Future test release

Firefox

Color	Meaning
Red	Former release; no longer supported
Yellow	Former release; still supported
Green	Current supported release
Blue	Future release

Firefox release history

Color	Meaning
Red	Former release; no longer supported
Pink	Former test release
Yellow	Former release; still supported
Green	Current supported release
Blue	Future release
Gold	Current test release
Purple	Future test release

Internet Explorer versions

Color	Meaning
Pink	Old test release; unsupported
Red	Old release; unsupported
Orange	Old release; extended support only
Yellow	Old release; supported
Green	Current release
Purple	Test release
Blue	Future release

Chrome

Color	Meaning
Red	Old release
Green	Stable release
Blue	Beta release
Purple	Dev release

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  Prior version outside of Regular Life Cycle

  Prior version with varying degrees of support

  Current version

  Future version

OpenSUSE

Color	Meaning
Red	Release no longer supported
Green	Release still supported
Blue	Future release

Windows Media Player

No colors used, no information about supported or future releases.

OpenGL

No colors used, no information about supported or future releases.

ReactOS

Color	Meaning
Red	Release no longer supported
Green	Current release
Blue	Future release
Gray	Skipped release

Gecko

No colors used, no information about supported or future releases.

vBulletin

Color	Meaning
Red	Pre-release beta versions
Green	Supported stable branch
Blue	Future versions

GNU C Library

Not used

Amarok

Colour	Meaning
Red	Release no longer supported
Green	Release still supported
Blue	Future release

JScript

No colors used, no information about supported or future releases.

Lubuntu

Release no longer supported

Release still supported

Future release

iTunes Version History

Obsolete

Discontinued

Current

Beta

Future Release

IOS version history

Obsolete

Discontinued

Current

Beta

Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard#Release_history

No colors used, no information about supported or future releases.