An overview of this implementation guide is versioned.

Release Candidate

This implementation guidance is the Release Candidate release to support the development of the Digital Child Health Event Messages.

Semantic Versioning

Given a version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, increment the:

  • MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes,
  • MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner, and
  • PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

Additional labels for pre-release and build metadata are available as extensions to the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format.

A pre-release version MAY be denoted by appending a hyphen (refer to Semantic Versioning - Item 9)

For example: 1.0.0-alpha.1 is a valid pre-release version.

Pre-release Labels

These labels will be taken from the GDS development process stages, and will be one of:

  • Experimental: Early development/POC version of an API for early sight during discovery
  • Alpha: Initial test APIs, likely to change substantially, or be discontinued as the project develops
  • Beta: APIs that are still under active development and subject to change, but that are likely to progress into a live API
  • Release Candidate: APIs that are largely complete, unlikely to change substantially, but still need further testing before becoming live
  • Live: Release live APIs
  • Discontinued: APIs which have been discontinued and should not be used for new development.
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