5 Backward compatibility

This current release of this standard is called ASAM OpenSCENARIO DSL 2.1.0.

The first release was called ASAM OpenSCENARIO 2.0.0. From then on, two separate flavors of one ASAM OpenSCENARIO standard were maintained in parallel. The flavors were distinguished by their major version numbers: 1.x and 2.x.
To avoid confusion, ASAM then decided to split these parallel versions into two separate standards: ASAM OpenSCENARIO XML (formerly 1.x) and ASAM OpenSCENARIO DSL (this standard, formerly 2.x). Today, each standard within the ASAM OpenSCENARIO family is versioned separately and independently.

Releases of ASAM OpenSCENARIO XML are based on an XML representation and are not compatible with this standard.

ASAM plans to continue the evolution of both ASAM OpenSCENARIO DSL and ASAM OpenSCENARIO XML to meet market requirements. Please refer to the ASAM web page for further details. ASAM does not directly support conversion between the two standards.

In the first release of ASAM OpenSCENARIO, a migration guide was supplied, with guidance and direction on how to migrate from ASAM OpenSCENARIO XML 1.2.0. This guide is no longer being updated. Based on market demand, it is expected that solution suppliers will develop solutions to convert scenarios from ASAM OpenSCENARIO XML to this version of ASAM OpenSCENARIO DSL.