6.0.4

As part of this release we had 26 commits which resulted in 6 issues being closed.

Bugs

• #4159 [ISSUE]: GitVersion tool is slow / stalls
• #4192 [ISSUE]: Building with target framework net8.0-windows requires a <GitVersionTargetFramework>

Dependencies

• !4263 (deps): Bump MSBuild.ProjectCreation to 13.0.0

Documentation

• #4219 [Docs]: Confusing/missing documentation around strategies
• !4262 Fix remark lint

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6.0.3

As part of this release we had 88 commits which resulted in 8 issues being closed.

Bug

• #4196 [ISSUE]: Syntax error in generated GitVersionInformation class when using project namespace

Documentation

• !4188 add link to docs version 5.12.0
• !4220 Improve documentation around version strategies

Improvements

• !4202 Move regex patterns to a common file
• !4246 Move creation of Regex to a central location
• !4259 Moved direct usages of IGitRepository to IRepositoryStore

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6.0.2

As part of this release we had 8 commits which resulted in 5 issues being closed.

Bugs

• #4140 [ISSUE]: gitversion.msbuild v6.0.1 breaks build
• #4148 [ISSUE]: GitVersion.MsBuild - GitVersion.MsBuild.targets and GitVersion.MsBuild.props: Error MSB3073 (gitversion.dll not found) in Version 6.0.1
• #4157 [ISSUE]: dotnet build fails after GitVersion.MsBuild nuget package added to C# project

Documentation

• #4120 [ISSUE]: Errors with NugetVersionV2 variable and FullSemVer

Improvements

• !4147 Remove dependency on "git" executable

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6.0.1

As part of this release we had 1374 commits which resulted in 3 issues being closed.

Bugs

• #4110 GitVersion.MSBuild with Packable .NET 8 project does not get valid SemVer
• #4125 [ISSUE]: "gitversion /version" fails if not run from a git repository

Improvements

• #4093 [ISSUE]: gitversion.properties is written to more than once when TargetFrameworks is supplied in .csproj

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6.0.0

As part of this release we had 1594 commits.

The changes that were introduced can be found within each of the pre-releases:

6.0.0-alpha.1
6.0.0-beta.1
6.0.0-beta.2
6.0.0-beta.3
6.0.0-beta.4
6.0.0-beta.5
6.0.0-beta.6
6.0.0-beta.7
6.0.0-rc.1
6.0.0-rc.2

For additional information check the BREAKING_CHANGES.md

Breaking changes

• #1054 Rename tag to label
• #2210 Remove Verbosity old values parsing
• #2325 [Improvement] Remove legacy version variables and related configuration options in v6
• #2997 Sunset support for .NET Framework 4.8
• #2998 Sunset support for .net50
• #3166 [Feature] Sunset .net core 3.1
• #3190 Change the logic inheriting BranchConfiguration from parent branch if the IncrementStrategy is set to Inherit
• #2848 [Bug] Default configuration is used when config file specified via -config not found
• #3235 Create new fallback and unknown section in GitVersionConfiguration an…
• !3805 Refactor caching system in GitVersion
• #3229 [Breaking Change] Remove init wizard for v6

Bugs

• #3020 [Bug] Closing pull request from hotfix to support failed to inherit Increment branch configuration
• #3101 [Bug] Version not generated correct when creating a feature branch from a release branch
• #3105 [Bug] Version of commit in develop merged to master changes if master is tagged
• #3151 [Bug] SemVer of a feature branch started from a release branch gets decremented
• #3154 [Bug] Merging develop to release branch makes alpha version jump back
• #3187 [Bug] Wrong semver calculation when making a PR from a hotfix branch to main branch
• #3282 [Bug] tag-prefix still seems to be optionally considered
• #964 When assembly-versioning-scheme is set to none, AssemblyInfoBulider should not emit AssemblyVersion attribute
• #1518 Stack overflow due to infinite loop falling back to branch config
• #1789 track-merge-target in branch config not working
• #2336 [Bug] Hotfix branch name not taken as version source
• #3052 [Bug] track-merge-changes produces unexpected result when combining hotfix and support branches
• #3341 [Bug] Failed to parse 0.1 into a Semantic Version (v 6.0.0-alpha.1)
• #1579 Azure Pipelines - Pull Request Inheritance
• #2134 [Appveyor] InvalidSpecificationException: the given reference name '[branch]' is not valid
• #2285 [Bug] Incrementing steps does not occur when I expect them
• #2287 [Bug] Wrong version calculation
• #2347 [Bug] When PreleaseLabel is empty, the PreleaseTag is not correctly generated
• #2597 [Bug] gitversion seems to pick the wrong base version, when using git flow while tagging on develop.
• #2667 Commit message can bump major version twice in GitFlow
• #2693 [Bug] VersionInBranchNameVersionStrategy only considers the release branch
• #2821 Pull Request Version Calculation Not Based on source branch
• #2917 Manually incrementing the version
• #3103 [Bug] GitLab: Branch names cannot contain the word 'refs'
• #3137 [Bug] Minor version increased instead of the prerelease tag
• #3183 [Bug]? no minor version detected on pull request that contains organization name
• #3397 [Bug] Normalization takes a very long time
• #3422 [Bug] wrong patch count after merging Release branch
• #3436 [Bug] GitVersion behaves different if it is used the first time where the fallback version strategy applies
• #3438 [Bug] Consider pre-release tags only when they matching with the label name on branch
• #2533 In GitVersion.MsBuild 5.6.3, AfterTargets="GetVersion" causes msbuild warning '"WriteVersionInfoToBuildLog" task could not be loaded'
• #2595 [Bug] GitVersion.MSBuild broken for WiX setup projects
• #2606 [Bug] The 'Documentation', 'Failing test', and 'Improvement request' issue templates lack proper descriptions.
• #2881 [Bug] GitVersion is extremely slow (25 minutes)
• #3212 [Bug]Regression perfomance since 5.2.4
• #3442 [Bug] Performance issue in pre 6.0.0-beta.1
• #3450 GitVersion 6.0-beta.1 : Error on WriteVersionInfoToBuildLog with can't load System.Runtime 6.0.0.0 on a .NET 7 project
• #3487 [Bug] Regression: GitVersion 5.12.0 uses only MajorMinorPatch from tag instead of SemVer
• #2462 [Bug] Using output of showconfig for config file results in invalid config
• #3606 [Bug] CS0436 may be present with InternalsVisibleTo
• #3654 [Bug] GitVersion forces a C# language for projects that aren't C#
• #3704 [Bug] MSB4062 The "WriteVersionInfoToBuildLog" task could not be loaded
• #3716 [Bug] Error when trying to set "Branch Increment mode"
• #3739 [Bug] The configuration JSON schemas use the wrong properties for default values and assign bad regex patterns
• #3832 [Bug] 6.0 Beta 4 gitversion.msbuild with dotnet build
• #3108 [Bug] Version not generated correct when creating a feature branch from a develop branch
• #3316 [Bug] BUILD_SOURCEBRANCH is assumed to be relevant
• #3570 [Bug] Incrementing patch version automatically on main without tags nor specific commit messages
• #3644 [Bug] 5.12 bumps major based on the previous merges instead of the last tag and branch convention
• #3656 [Bug] CommitsSinceVersionSource is counting from latest minor tag or first tag instead of latest tag
• #3699 [Bug] GitVersion calculates the wrong version after main is merged back to develop
• #3757 Version not bumped if an irrelevant tag exists in latest commit
• #3074 [Bug] ignore parameter does not ignore everything
• [#3206](#32...

6.0.0-rc.2

As part of this release we had 1579 commits which resulted in 8 issues being closed.

Dependencies

• !4095 (deps): Bump YamlDotNet from 15.3.0 to 16.0.0 in /src

Documentation

• !4041 Fix typo in track-merge-target and track-merge-message
• #4042 gitversion from container image default behaviour differs from other installation methods
• #4043 [Documentation]: Documenting the GitFlow workflow and create sequence diagrams
• #4060 [ISSUE]: init command still shown in the help output
• #4063 [Documentation]: Documenting the GitHubFlow workflow and create sequence
• #4078 [ISSUE]: Update the docs on DockerHub and specify the usage when running in a CI environment

Improvements

• !4087 Fix path separator for gitversion.dll in MSBuild task

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6.0.0-rc.1

As part of this release we had 1513 commits which resulted in 10 issues being closed.

Bug

• #2394 [Bug] GitVersionTask: VersionSource is set to wrong tag

Dependencies

• !3972 (deps): Bump LibGit2Sharp from 0.29.0 to 0.30.0

Documentation

• #3937 [Docs] Update the docs for Azure Pipelines and Github actions - redirect to the gittools/actions

Improvements

• #3689 [Improvement] Increment version as per source branch
• #3916 [Improvement] Refator BaseVersionV2 into BaseVersion
• !3975 cleanups & refactorings
• !3984 Add support for Squash Commit releases
• #4000 [Improvement]: Rename TrunkBased Version Strategy to Mainline
• #4002 [Improvement]: Create TaggedSemanticVersionService class
• #4005 [Improvement]: Finalizing the configuration of GitFlow and GitHubFlow workflow and align with the Mainline version strategy

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6.0.0-beta.7

As part of this release we had 1398 commits which resulted in 6 issues being closed.

Bugs

• #3074 [Bug] ignore parameter does not ignore everything
• #3206 [Bug] GitVersion mainline always returns latest version based on master branch history, even if building for an older commit
• #3427 [Bug] Ignoring a SHA in the configuration does not seem to exclude it from the version calculation

Features

• #3461 [Feature] We need to consider somehow the IGitVersionConfiguration::Ignore property

Improvements

• #3919 Review Ignored unit tests

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6.0.0-beta.6

As part of this release we had 1365 commits which resulted in 14 issues being closed.

Breaking change

• #3229 [Breaking Change] Remove init wizard for v6

Bugs

• #3108 [Bug] Version not generated correct when creating a feature branch from a develop branch
• #3316 [Bug] BUILD_SOURCEBRANCH is assumed to be relevant
• #3570 [Bug] Incrementing patch version automatically on main without tags nor specific commit messages
• #3644 [Bug] 5.12 bumps major based on the previous merges instead of the last tag and branch convention
• #3656 [Bug] CommitsSinceVersionSource is counting from latest minor tag or first tag instead of latest tag
• #3699 [Bug] GitVersion calculates the wrong version after main is merged back to develop
• #3757 Version not bumped if an irrelevant tag exists in latest commit

Features

• #1839 Configurable next-version strategies and mode
• #3453 [Feature] Same version computed on different branches
• #3877 Add configuration option to disable branch name version calculation
• #3922 [Feature] The increment of the branch will be ignored when prevent-increment is set to true on the branch

Improvements

• #3308 [Improvement] Replacing the mainline version mode with the continuous deployment mode
• !3921 Mark dependencies as private assets for GitVersion.MsBuild

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6.0.0-beta.5

As part of this release we had 1195 commits which resulted in 7 issues being closed.

Bug

• #3832 [Bug] 6.0 Beta 4 gitversion.msbuild with dotnet build

Documentation

• !3858 Docker documentation (v6)

Improvements

• #3831 Better Bitbucket support for gitversion /output buildserver for Powershell
• !3844 Feature/replace the version mode mainline part i.a

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