6.0.0-beta.1

As part of this release we had 502 commits which resulted in 25 issues being closed.

breaking changes

• #2848 [Bug] Default configuration is used when config file specified via -config not found
• #3235 Create new fallback and unknown section in GitVersionConfiguration an…

bugs

• #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)

dependenciess

• #3388 (deps): Bump YamlDotNet from 13.0.0 to 13.0.1
• #3389 (deps): Bump Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk from 17.4.1 to 17.5.0
• #3411 (deps): Bump Microsoft.Build.Utilities.Core from 17.4.0 to 17.5.0

features

• #2874 [Feature Request] Add JSON schema to help configure 'GitVersion.yml'
• #3302 [Feature] Introducing a new branch related property with name track-merge-message
• #3305 [Feature] Introducing a new templating mechanism to support different workflows
• #3396 Using effective branch configuration
• #3400 [Feature] Add an additional command line argument - "-format" to allow to output an expression instead of a singular version variable

improvements

• #2193 [Improvement] Chocolatey package 'gitversion' should point to 'gitversion.portable'
• #3234 [Improvement] Rename the Cache namespace to Caching
• #3244 Refactor next version calculator (get rid of taggedSemanticVersion)
• #3334 [Improvement] Target .net6.0 and .net7.0 instead of netstandard2.0
• #3337 tracks-release-branches won't track remote release branches without regex mod
• #3375 [Improvement] Deprecate GitVersion.Commandline nuget package
• #3386 move build agents to a separate lib out of core
• #3398 Move output (VersionConverters) to its own module

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