Semantic versioning

3.4.1 === major.minor.patch

  • Major

    • New feature which may potentially cause breaking changes to applications dependent on the previous major version.

  • Minor

    • New features that do not break the existing API

  • Patch

    • Bug fixes for the current minor version

Glob patterns for versioning

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Interested in any version so long as the major version remains at \(n\). E.g if we are at ^4.2.1 and we upgrade, we are ok with 4.5.3 or 4.8.2. We are not bothered about the minor or patch version.

This is equivalent to 4.x

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Interested in any patch version within set major and minor parameters. For example ~1.8.3 means you don’t mind any patch version so long as it is a patch for 1.8. This is equivalent to 1.8.x.

No tilde or caret

Use the exact version specified

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