RFC: A new versioning strategy for Discourse

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That’s pretty cool :+1:

Do I understand correctly that there is no stable update to 3.5.3 now, possibly coincidentally?

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Yeah, just a coincidence. We didn’t have any security fixes to release this month.

Stable 3.5 is still fully supported

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Hi,

I used to use the beta tag and am now trying to update my scripts to use the new setup. Here’s how the repository looks as far as I can tell:

* b541e99ea2 (origin/tests-passed, origin/main, origin/latest) DEV: Exclude new table in IntermediateDB config
* 02dfb651ae DEV: Add support for converting and importing `category_moderation_groups`
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* 1dde082e96 UX: update lightbox quote icon to apply shadow (#36247)
* 3e7317b334 (tag: v2025.12.0-latest, tag: release) DEV: Begin development of v2025.12.0-latest (#36249)
| * 48167b94d6 (origin/release/2025.11) Backport limited body overflow (#36256)
| * 75d61b40ee (tag: v2025.11.0) DEV: Bump version on `release/2025.11` to `v2025.11.0` (#36251)
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* e3f0320395 FIX: uses overflow hidden body on iOS (#36248)
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* 05cd20d401 Bump version to v3.6.0.beta3-latest
* 8a3cb59d5b (tag: v3.6.0.beta2, tag: latest-release, tag: beta) Bump version to v3.6.0.beta2
* 21e5ded097 DEV: remove redundant data attr when cooking posts (#35650)
  • Is it expected that the beta tag is still pointing at v3.6.0.beta2?
  • Is it expected that the release tag is not pointing to a revision on the release/2025.11 branch?

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Hi @simonk, thanks for raising those points! We’ve actually been discussing both those things today internally.

  • The old beta and latest-release tags should be aliases of release

  • release should be tracking the latest commit of release/2025.11

Working on getting that fixed up right now.

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Those three tags have now been moved to the correct commit manually. Will make sure that the automated tooling is updated to keep them in the right place going forward.

* commit 48167b94d63faf8a41b9c8193ec5dd3e4e9f498e (HEAD -> release/2025.11, tag: release, tag: latest-release, tag: beta, origin/release/2025.11)
| Author: Joffrey JAFFEUX <j.jaffeux@gmail.com>
| Date:   Wed Nov 26 14:31:55 2025 +0100
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|     Backport limited body overflow (#36256)
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