Dolphin 5.0 – which is eight years old – is no more. In its place, we have Dolphin 2407. What do those numbers mean? Well, it's July 2024 – so we think you can probably work out the rest.
It's worth noting that this rather simple approach could become more complex; for example, letters will be applied when a hotfix is issued, so 2407 will become 2407a – and there's also a numerical suffix added to updates which have 'commits' pushed to them, so 2407 would become 2407-10 if there were 10 commits, for example.
So, it's arguably a less 'clean' way of seeing which version of Dolphin you're running, but it will overcome the issue of a single version appearing to be unchanged for eight years – as was the case with Dolphin 5.0 (it wasn't unchanged, of course, but the beta builds that have been issued since then were never counted as full releases).
While this numbering change is big news, the actual update itself isn't – in fact, it doesn't contain any fixes, updates or new features and is purely intended to establish the new update naming convention for the emulator.
You can install this shiny new release from the Dolphin downloads page.
