14 Change History

Release

Description of Change

Substantive?

Date approved

Date for compliance

5.0

New Code of Practice to replace Release 4.

Yes

2017-07-01

2019-02-28 (with support for January 2019 usage)

5.0.1

Amendments, corrections and clarifications based on feedback and questions from the community.

Yes

2018-12-10

2019-02-28 (with support for January 2019 usage)

5.0.2

Amendments, corrections and clarifications based on feedback and questions from the community.

No

2021-09-28

2022-02-28 (with support for January 2022 usage)

5.0.3

Corrections and clarifications based on feedback and questions from the community.

No

2023-03-30

2023-04-28 (with support for March 2023 usage)

5.1

Substantive changes to the Code of Practice, in line with feedback and questions from the community.

Yes

2023-03-30

2025-01-01 (with support for January 2025 usage)

Starting with Release 5.0.2 the COUNTER Code of Practice Release 5 is maintained in the GitHub repository Project-Counter/cop5, and all changes are tracked with GitHub issues and linked pull requests. The change log lists all changes by type and impact of the change.