Versioning and releasing

Solarwinds' OpenTelemetry Auto-Instrumentation Distro uses SemVer standard for versioning of its artifacts.

Snapshot builds

Every successful push to any branch builds and publishes the agent artifact to Stage latest and Stage latest(lambda).

Release cadence

We plan to release all unreleased changes in the main branch on the 3rd week of the month.

Making the release

Update the version in project's build.gradle file to the appropriate version
Make PR with version change to main branch
After the pull request is merged, approve the CI's release steps
Release the SDK by closing and releasing the snapshot in sonatype repo