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Flet versioning and pre-releases

· 2 min read
Feodor Fitsner

Flet is a fast-evolving framework with a new functionality and bug fixes being committed every other day.

The development model with one pull request per release didn't work well for the project as users waited for weeks to get hands on a new release and, honestly, from development perspective producing large "heroic" releases takes a lot of energy 🫠.

From now on we'll be breaking releases into multiple pull requests with one feature/bugfix per PR.

Every PR merged into main branch will be publishing pre-release (developmental release) package to pypi.org having version format of X.Y.Z.devN.

Installing pre-releases​

To install Flet pre-release package use the following command:

pip install flet --pre
info

We recommend installing pre-release builds into a virtual environment.

Flet versioning​

Flet is switching to Semanting Versioning with a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH:

  1. MAJOR will be incremented when there are "incompatible API changes". Right now it's 0 and we expect to make it 1 when we feel that Flet API is stable enough.
  2. MINOR will be incremented when a new functionality added in a backwards compatible manner.
  3. PATCH will be incremented when we make backward compatible bug fixes.

According to that rule, upcoming Flet release will have version 0.2.0. Bug fixes for that release will be labeled as 0.2.1, 0.2.2, etc. The release after that release will be 0.3.0 and so on.

Flet pre-releases will have a format of MAJOR.{LAST_MINOR + 1}.0.dev{BUILD} where LAST_MINOR is MINOR version of the last release and {BUILD} is a build number set by CI. For example, if the last published release is 0.1.65 pre-releases will have versions 0.2.0.dev{BUILD}. Pre-releases after 0.2.0 release will be labeled as 0.3.0.dev{BUILD}.