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diff --git a/docs/installing-solidity.rst b/docs/installing-solidity.rst index ad27e528..ebb7537b 100644 --- a/docs/installing-solidity.rst +++ b/docs/installing-solidity.rst @@ -6,6 +6,15 @@ Installing Solidity ################### +Versioning +========== + +Solidity versions follow `semantic versioning <https://semver.org>` and in addition to +releases, **nightly development builds** are also made available. The nightly builds +are not guaranteed to be working and despite best efforts they might contain undocumented +and/or broken changes. We recommend to use the latest release. Package installers below +will use the latest release. + Browser-Solidity ================ @@ -186,3 +195,20 @@ Alternatively, you can build for Windows on the command-line, like so: .. code:: bash cmake --build . --config RelWithDebInfo + +Important information about versioning +====================================== + +After a release is made, the patch version level is bumped, because we assume that only +patch level changes follow. When changes are merged, the version should be bumped according +to semver and the severity of the change. Finally, a release is always made with the version +of the current nightly build, but without the ``prerelease`` specifier. + +Example: +- 0) the 0.4.0 release is made +- 1) nightly build has a version of 0.4.1 from now on +- 2) non-breaking changes are introduced - no change in version +- 3) a breaking change is introduced - version is bumped to 0.5.0 +- 4) the 0.5.0 release is made + +This behaviour works well with the version pragma. |