By drumm on
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Description:
Releases made on Drupal.org have their version numbers parsed into components, including major, minor, and patch. Patch is being replaced with minor. Formats changing are:
- Contributed projects: from
{API compatibility}-{major}.{patch}[-(alpha|beta|RC){number}]to{API compatibility}-{major}.{minor}[-(alpha|beta|RC){number}] - Drupal 5-7 core: from
{major}.{patch}[-(alpha|beta|RC){number}]to{major}.{minor}[-(alpha|beta|RC){number}]
All existing releases will be updated as part of this migration.
The change will be mostly transparent. This aligns with how version numbers are already presented in Drupal.org’s Composer endpoint. Update status XML will continue reporting the old version number components for legacy client compatibility.
This change will be visible in Drupal.org’s REST API.
This is in preparation for another upcoming version number format change, allowing semantic versioning for all projects on Drupal.org.
