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SDK versioning

The Harness Feature Flags versioning policy is based on the semantic versioning standard (also referred to as SemVer). This topic describes the versioning policy for SDKs.

What is Semantic Versioning?​

Semantic Versioning is a mechanism to uniquely label each version of the released software product by an identifier. According to the semantic version policy, the identifier should have the following three components:

  • Major version number
  • Minor version number
  • Patch version number

These components are separated by periods, for example, X.Y.Z, where:

  • X is the Major Version
  • Y is the Minor Version
  • Z is the Patch Version

When a new version is released, one of the major, minor, or patch components is incremented. Differentiating between new versions is based on the kinds of changes introduced in the new version.

When versions are incremented​

  • Major version: incremented when the version contains breaking changes.
  • Minor version: incremented when the version contains new functionality that is backward compatible.
  • Patch version: incremented when the version contains bug fixes that are backward compatible.

For more information, see Semantic Versioning 2.0.0.