Current Behavior

I discovered that when using nx release in a project configured to use conventionalCommits: true (so git-tag as source for current version) and projectsRelationship: "independent", the tag filtering breaks, resulting in nx release (no --preid) using the wrong previous version (tag).

Based on the implementation, the tags are sorted using the versionsort.suffix=- option so that a version 0.1.2 appears before 0.1.2-bla.0, which works. But in a standard workflow, one will first release a 0.1.3-prerelease.0 before a 0.1.3 (stable).

Currently, if the latest pre-release version is 0.1.3-prerelease.0 and stable is 0.1.2, nx release will use the pre-release version to calculate the new stable, and likely find no changes.

As a result, running nx release with no --preid option when there are existent pre-release tags will not result in the creation of a stable release.

Expected Behavior

nx release tag sorting logic should be mixed with a filtering of pre-release only tags for a latest version, to correctly release a stable version from a pre-release.

When the following tags are present:

my-project@0.0.1
my-project@0.0.1-beta.0
my-project@0.0.2
my-project@0.0.3-beta.0

The selected tag used by nx release (no --preid) should be my-project@0.0.2, not my-project@0.0.3-beta.0, so that conventional-commits uses the latest stable as source commit.

GitHub Repo

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Steps to Reproduce

1. Set up independent releases
2. Create initial release with nx release -> creates package@0.0.1
3. Release package with nx release --preid=test -> creates package@0.0.2-test.0
4. Run nx release
5. Acknowledge that no release is created, because the prerelease tag is used instead of the latest, previous, stable release

Nx Report

Node           : 22.16.0
OS             : darwin-arm64
Native Target  : aarch64-macos
npm            : 10.9.2

nx (global)            : 21.1.1
nx                     : 21.2.0
@nx/js                 : 21.2.0
@nx/jest               : 21.2.0
@nx/eslint             : 21.2.0
@nx/workspace          : 21.2.0
@nx/devkit             : 21.2.0
@nx/esbuild            : 21.2.0
@nx/eslint-plugin      : 21.2.0
@nx/module-federation  : 21.2.0
@nx/node               : 21.2.0
@nx/plugin             : 21.2.0
@nx/react              : 21.2.0
@nx/vite               : 21.2.0
@nx/web                : 21.2.0
typescript             : 5.8.3
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Registered Plugins:
@nx/js/typescript
@nx/react/router-plugin
@nx/eslint/plugin
@nx/vite/plugin
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Cache Usage: 57.91 MB / 46.04 GB

Failure Logs

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