Q: Does this plugin support major.minor.patch.hotfix format?

[vitalyk-multinarity]

Does this plugin support major.minor.patch.hotfix format - for instance, v1.2.3.4?

Thanks,
Vitaly

[PSanetra]

Hi @vitalyk-multinarity

as this plugin is intended to support the semver format, only a format like v1.2.3-hotfix.1 would be supported, although the suffix like -hotfix.1 is actually intended as a pre-release suffix.

I don't known any approach for hotfix cases in the semantic versioning standard. Dependening on your use case and ecosystem using the pre-release format could be ok for you, but be aware: If some tooling parses this format as valid semver it would prioritize v1.2.3 over v1.2.3-hotfix.1 as v1.2.3-hotfix.1 might be interpreted as pre-release version and v1.2.3 would be more recent according to semver standard semantically.

[vitalykarasik]

Thank you @PSanetra!
Our release manager chose to work with v1.2.3.4 format for releases, and you're right - it's not strictly semver convention.