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Pragmatic Versioning Website

This is the website at https://pragver.github.io/ that describes the Pragmatic Versioning specification.

Summary

This specification describes a set of rules and requirements that dictate how each version identifier must be bumped and and assigned to releases, in a way that communicates the kind of modifications that were done to a versioned artifact.

A minimal version identifier takes the form GRADE.MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH and is bumped by incrementing:

  • The Grade Number, when any disruptive modifications are released.
  • The Major Number, when any backwards-incompatible modifications are released.
  • The Minor Number, when any backwards-compatible alterations are released.
  • The Patch Number, when only backwards-compatible corrections are released.

Optional Metadata containing additional information associated to the release or the build take the respective forms -RELEASE.METADATA and +BUILD.METADATA and can be appended to a minimal version identifier.

Author

The Pragmatic Versioning specification is authored by Guillermo Calvo.

License

This specification is released under Creative Commons — Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

You are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

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