An overview of how this implementation guide is versioned.

Important: This site is under development by NHS Digital, It is advised not to develop against these specifications until a formal announcement has been made.

Alpha

This implementation guidance is the Alpha release to support the development of NEWS2.

Semantic Versioning

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

MAJOR version when you make incompatible 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 see here

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 a product for early sight during discovery

Alpha: Initial test product, 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 product

Release Candidate: Products that are largely complete, unlikely to change substantially, but still need further testing before becoming live

Live: Release live Products

Discontinued: APIs which have been discontinued and should not be used for new development.

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