Versioning¶

ethereumclassic/core-geth uses Semantic Versioning. The API definition that would demand increments to the major version is basically nil; it can be expected that a major version bump would be accompanied by an entirely new repository and name.

VersionMeta (params/version.go) carries the release stage. It advances unstable → RC1, RC2, … → stable as a release is prepared, must never be empty, and is set once per tag; geth version prints it appended to the semantic version, for example 1.13.0-RC2 for a release candidate. See Publishing a release for when each stage is set.