RELEASE_GUIDE.md

Overview

Instruction on how to create new GitHub & Web Releases.

Release Process

AzDO Tasks

GitHub Release Task

Azure File Copy

Versioning

Follow NPM Semantic Versioning

Code status	Stage	Rule	Example version
First release	New product	Start with 1.0.0	1.0.0
Backward compatible bug fixes	Patch release	Increment the third digit	1.0.1
Backward compatible new features	Minor release	Increment the middle digit and reset last digit to zero	1.1.0
Changes that break backward compatibility	Major release	Increment the first digit and reset middle and last digits to zero	2.0.0

Commands

The pipeline use npm-version to update version

Pre

All version with pre, ie. preminor will bump the appropriate didgit & append -0 to the new version

Examples:

npm version prepatch

1. v2.3.0 --> v2.3.1-0
2. v2.3.1-0 --> v2.3.2-0

npm version preminor

1. v2.3.0 --> v2.4.0-0
2. v2.4.0-0 --> v2.5.0-0

Exception

prerelease behave similar to prepatch, but would increment the last digit.

Examples:

npm version prerelease

v2.3.0 --> v2.3.1-0

v2.3.0-0 --> v2.3.0-1

Major

v2.x.x --> v3.0.0

Minor

v2.2.0 --> v2.3.0