The gas ring was first moved from the cylinder TO the yoke, and then later (~1977) BACK to the cylinder when the first change caused more problems than it solved.
The SCSW lists the approximate revision and year when the second change occurred, but does not mention the first change. Apparently neither change warranted an engineering revision, so there is no definite correspondence to a dash number. As other people mentioned, S&W continued to use parts with the gas ring on the yoke for some unknown time.
The first change is what led to making the flat undercut at the forcing cone bigger, and it stayed that way (making the barrel weaker in that spot) even after the second change. The bigger undercut is blamed for the cracked barrels on the Model 19 and Model 66, when police departments switched to training with more and hotter .357 loads. Articles I read reported barrels cracking after as few as a dozen "hot" loads in testing.
A number of those revolvers were returned to S&W for warranty service. That in turn led to the development of the stronger L frame.
Most of this information is in an article that was linked in a separate thread called "Model 19 strengthening".
Model 19 strengthening
Another interesting bit of trivia is that slots were also machined into the gas ring when it was on the yoke to attempt to direct the hot gas away from more sensitive areas. In other words, S&W already knew that the first change did not solve the problem on its own.