gogs/docs/admin/release_strategy.md

Release strategy

Semantic versioning

Starting 0.12.0, Gogs uses semantic versioning for publishing releases. For example:

• 0.12.0 is a minor version release.
• 0.12.1 is the first patch release of 0.12.
• 0.12 indicates a series of releases for a minor version and its patch releases.

Each minor release has its own release branch with prefix release/, e.g. release/0.12 is the release branch for minor version 0.12.0 and all its patch releases (0.12.1, 0.12.2, etc.).

Backwards compatibility

Before 0.12

If you're running Gogs with any version below 0.12, please upgrade to 0.12 to run necessary migrations.

Since 0.12

We maintain one minor version backwards compatibility, patch releases are disregarded.

For example, you should:

• Upgrade from 0.12.0 to 0.13.0.
• Upgrade from 0.12.1 to 0.13.4.
• NOT upgrade from 0.12.4 to 0.14.0.

Therefore, we recommend upgrade one minor version at a time.

Running source builds

If you're running Gogs with building from source code, we recommend you update at least weekly to be not fall behind and potentially miss migrations.