Update versioning to support appropriate version checks.

volatility/cli/__init__.py

@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class CommandLine(interfaces.plugins.FileConsumerInterface):
     def run(self):
         """Executes the command line module, taking the system arguments,
         determining the plugin to run and then running it."""
-        sys.stdout.write("Volatility Framework {}\n".format(constants.PACKAGE_VERSION))
+        sys.stdout.write("Volatility 3 Framework {}\n".format(constants.PACKAGE_VERSION))
 
         volatility.framework.require_interface_version(0, 0, 0)
 

volatility/cli/volshell/__init__.py

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class VolShell(cli.CommandLine):
     def run(self):
         """Executes the command line module, taking the system arguments,
         determining the plugin to run and then running it."""
-        sys.stdout.write("Volshell (Volatility Framework) {}\n".format(constants.PACKAGE_VERSION))
+        sys.stdout.write("Volshell (Volatility 3 Framework) {}\n".format(constants.PACKAGE_VERSION))
 
         framework.require_interface_version(0, 0, 0)
 

volatility/framework/__init__.py

@@ -21,15 +21,10 @@ from volatility.framework import constants, interfaces
 #     MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner, and
 #     PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes.
 
-# We use the SemVer 2.0.0 versioning scheme
-MAJOR = 0  # Number of releases of the library with a breaking change
-MINOR = 0  # Number of changes that only add to the interface
-PATCH = 0  # Number of changes that do not change the interface
-
 
 def interface_version():
     """Provides the so version number of the library."""
-    return MAJOR, MINOR, PATCH
+    return constants.VERSION_MAJOR, constants.VERSION_MINOR, constants.VERSION_PATCH
 
 
 vollog = logging.getLogger(__name__)

volatility/framework/constants/__init__.py

@@ -34,7 +34,13 @@ if hasattr(sys, 'frozen') and sys.frozen:
 BANG = "!"
 """Constant used to delimit table names from type names when referring to a symbol"""
 
-PACKAGE_VERSION = "3.0.0_alpha1"
+# We use the SemVer 2.0.0 versioning scheme
+VERSION_MAJOR = 0  # Number of releases of the library with a breaking change
+VERSION_MINOR = 0  # Number of changes that only add to the interface
+VERSION_PATCH = 0  # Number of changes that do not change the interface
+VERSION_SUFFIX = "-beta.1"
+
+PACKAGE_VERSION = ".".join([str(x) for x in [VERSION_MAJOR, VERSION_MINOR, VERSION_PATCH]]) + VERSION_SUFFIX
 """The canonical version of the volatility package"""
 
 AUTOMAGIC_CONFIG_PATH = 'automagic'