5.0.0-alpha.1

First alpha build of GitVersion 5, which in time will introduce a few breaking changes.

4.0.0 - Major Release

This is a major release produced as a result of a lot of hard work from many contributors, in all areas, including our own build and release process itself - which will continue to increment on, lot's of bug fixes and optimisations, and we now also run on .NET Core!

Please bear with us as we continue to evolve our release automation to take care of... these release notes right here! #1493

Hopefully we will come back to these release notes and update them at some stage in the near future.

v4.0.0-beta.14

• #1455 - Added .editorconfig and fixed cake tab/space mismatches contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1453 - 4.0 Release?
• #1449 - Mono Not finding Library /ibgit2-baa87df.so.24
• #1439 - GitReleaseNotes updates contributed by Artur (arturcic)
• #1438 - Update GitReleaseNotes contributed by Artur (arturcic)
• #1432 - Cake build - Don't hard code gitreleasenotes.exe path. contributed by Darrell (dazinator)
• #1431 - Fixes #1430 - gitreleasenotes step. contributed by Darrell (dazinator)
• #1430 - Appveyor build failing on master +fix
• #1428 - Add C++ (Modern/UWP,MFC, etc.) support for SemVer in GitVersion contributed by S. Tunney (stunney)
• #1420 - Versioning all assemblies
• #1416 - Update LibGit2Sharp to 0.25.0-preview-0033 contributed by Nathan Lowe (nlowe)
• #1395 - Version is different on a fresh repo clone
• #1393 - Update CONTRIBUTING.md contributed by Ilya Chudin (chuuddo)
• #1389 - VSTS - BuildNumber replacement not wanted
• #1388 - GitVersion.exe - dotnetcore
• #1387 - DotNetCore Docker Image
• #1385 - Fix issue Montonically increasing AssemblyFileVersion to satisfy the … contributed by Ruh Ullah Shah (ruhullahshah)
• #1383 - Filter tag method refactor followup contributed by Joseph Kingry (jkingry)
• #1381 - GitVersionTask Parallel restore issue when multi targeting
• #1380 - TFS Task fails when there are spaces in the agent path.
• #1375 - Support for bitbucket pull request merge message contributed by Pavel Teplukhin (Dobriy33)
• #1374 - Improve performance - Filter list of all tags first by those parsable to a semantic version contributed by Joseph Kingry (jkingry)
• #1373 - Updated NuGet 4.3.0+ support of SemVer 2.0.0 contributed by (AlirezaInGitHub)
• #1371 - #1355 Fix develop branch config in mainline mode contributed by Pavel Teplukhin (Dobriy33)
• #1368 - Fix dotnet publish and VS2017 contributed by MysticBoy (maikebing)
• #1366 - Montonically increasing AssemblyFileVersion to satisfy the MSI
• #1365 - switch GetMainlineTip from using branch config key to using the regex contributed by (tvoyle)
• #1364 - Finding mainline tip uses key instead of regex from branch config
• #1363 - Move packaging logic to cake
• #1362 - Command-line GitVersion in a Linux environment
• #1360 - Push v4.0.0-beta.13 to nuget
• #1352 - Fixing example command for installing libcurl3 contributed by Scott Ranger (scottrangerio)
• #1351 - Make sure GetVersion is called for project references contributed by Brandon Ording (bording)
• #1350 - Fix issue with "tracks-release-branches" and custom release branch names contributed by Vitaly (melnikvitaly)
• #1346 - Version in develop branch is ahead of master?
• #1344 - Docker improvements contributed by Neil Scholten (neilinger)
• #1342 - Fix/release issues contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1340 - Fix addin/tool versions contributed by Gary Ewan Park (gep13)
• #1339 - update README.md - fix minor typo contributed by John Wilson (wislon)
• #1338 - Add release documentation contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1337 - GitVersion is not L337 enough
• #1336 - Fix/possible infinite inherit contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1334 - Cannot exclude a prefix from the merge message when determining the next version
• #1331 - No valid git object identified by 'refs/remotes/origin/HEAD' exists in the repository.
• #1329 - MSBuild task does not create gitversion.properties file in Jenkins env
• #1324 - Add VS extension updater contributed by Taylor Southwick (twsouthwick)
• #1313 - removes all duplicate repos if not origin contributed by Jonathan Kuleff (JonCubed)
• #1311 - Errors when calculating for pull reqest
• #1296 - Question: New v4 Beta?
• #1269 - #1175 - NetStandard contributed by Darrell (dazinator)
• #1248 - Upgrade LibGit2Sharp from v0.23 to v0.24 contributed by Asbjørn Ulsberg (asbjornu)
• #1195 - StackoverflowException when using msbuild in VS2017 in 4.0.0-beta11
• #1065 - Version calculation performance on tfs build
• #1050 - VSTS build step does not check the build number for environment variables
• #932 - New mode: mainline +enhancement
• #895 - Add support for additional assembly metadata in AssemblyInfo.cs
• #878 - GitVersion doesn't pick up version tags assigned to the latest commit
• #138 - Support generating AssemblyVersion attributes in other languages +enhancement
• #117 - Log line number for version conflict
• #116 - Add Username+Password support to MSBuild Task

Commits: 2e1266b...4bc1e59

v4.0.0-beta.13

This release has been a long time coming, good news, the release process is being documented so any of the maintainers can perform releases.

• #1336 - Fix/possible infinite inherit contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1323 - Trunk Based Development branching strategy: Release build respecting commit tag, not branch name
• #1322 - License?
• #1320 - Expose the tag and sha of source commit
• #1319 - [Question] Can GitVersionTask be configured to only update specified Assembly*Versions and not others
• #1312 - #1150 Remove criteria preventing the download of prerelease versions … contributed by Justin (Tankatronic)
• #1309 - Maintain two major versions in parallel
• #1307 - .NET Standard 2.0: dotnet build fails
• #1306 - Add configuration parameter to format CommitDate #1305 contributed by Oliver Daum (ccHanibal)
• #1305 - Add configuration parameter to format CommitDate
• #1303 - Improve documentation for assembly version schemes contributed by Thomas Levesque (thomaslevesque)
• #1302 - Improve documentation for assembly-versioning-scheme and assembly-file-versioning-scheme
• #1299 - Trying to add assembly-file-versioning-scheme to GitVersion.yml file
• #1297 - honour increment config value for Mainline contributed by Jonathan Kuleff (JonCubed)
• #1295 - [Question] Is this Version flow possible?
• #1294 - +semver:patch does not seem to work with Mainline mode
• #1293 - Ensure that PreReleaseNumber is always a number contributed by Pedro Marques (pitermarx)
• #1291 - Improve ExecuteCore.ExecuteInternal when HEAD is not pointing at the desired branch contributed by (Jericho)
• #1289 - Incorrect calculated version on new branch without any commits
• #1287 - Improve shallow clone exception contributed by Asbjørn Ulsberg (asbjornu)
• #1283 - How to create vsix package from updated code?
• #1282 - Request failed with status code: 401
• #1280 - Closes #1274 - Removed system.web (replaced databinder.eval) contributed by Darrell (dazinator)
• #1279 - Fixes #1278 - ContinuaCI use environment variable not registry. contributed by Darrell (dazinator)
• #1278 - Continua Ci - uses registry - needs fix
• #1276 - Added Octopus Deploy to list contributed by Peter Neave (peterneave)
• #1274 - Remove System.Web dependency
• #1273 - Allow branch names starting with master contributed by Tim Barnett (tgbarnett)
• #1272 - Allow branch names starting with master contributed by Tim Barnett (tgbarnett)
• #1271 - Allow for brach names to start with reserved names
• #1270 - VSTS GitVersion variables are not resolved when tagging sources
• #1268 - Per-folder configuration for monorepo support
• #1265 - GitVersionTask.targets for buildMultitarget does not output AssemblyInfo
• #1264 - Nitpicky typo correction contributed by Curtis Buice (cbuice)
• #1263 - How to run GitVersion in Mono?
• #1260 - VsoAgentBuildNumberTests refactored with accordance to the remark from @asbjornu contributed by (dpurge)
• #1259 - Changing hardcoded master/develop regex contributed by Paul Wiens (pwiens)
• #1258 - #1257 Fix regexp in VsoAgent contributed by (dpurge)
• #1257 - TFS build number overwritten fully instead of only replacing gitversion variables
• #1256 - use correct possessive pronoun contributed by Stephen Eidson (rarrarrarr)
• #1252 - Wrong variable names in documentation
• #1251 - Need some help to configure
• #1249 - Clean up AssemblyInfo file updating contributed by Brandon Ording (bording)
• #1247 - Sync FileVersion contributed by Brandon Ording (bording)
• #1242 - GitVersionInformation in SDK-style projects
• #1241 - FileVersion inconsistency between UpdateAssemblyInfo and UpdateVersionProperties
• #1237 - add a null check for the merge base contributed by Simon Cropp (SimonCropp)
• #1230 - nullref in GitRepoMetadataProvider.FindMergeBase
• #1228 - Update mkdocs.yml to fix typo contributed by Craig Russell (CDRussell)
• #1227 - GitVersion /output buildserver does not create gitversion.properties file
• #1225 - Pick better merge base contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1224 - Feature/fix mainline feature branch bump contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1223 - Add failing test for issue #1221 contributed by Maxime Beaudry (mabead)
• #1221 - Increment 'Minor' number when merging feature branch in master in Mainline mode
• #1220 - Added 'EnsureWixToolsetInstalled' BeforeTarget to GetVersionTask.targets contributed by Forest Balk (forestb)
• #1219 - Improvements to Dockerfile contributed by Ben Hall (BenHall)
• #1211 - Wrong pull request version when branching from a tagged merge commit contributed by Morten Larsen (baunegaard)
• #1204 - Invalid release version when some branch created from it contributed by (czesiu)
• #1202 - Random exception - this remote has never connected
• #1195 - StackoverflowException when using msbuild in VS2017 in 4.0.0-beta11
• #1112 - More caching of merge bases contributed by Daniel Rose (DanielRose)
• #1110 - Gitversion fails on buildserver
• #1043 - LibGit2Sharp.NotFoundException: Object not found - no match for id
• #886 - AssemblyFileVersionAttribute format configurable +enhancement
• #544 - MajorMinorPatchTag - AssemblyVersion vs AssemblyFileVersion +fix

v4.0.0-beta.12

• Bug fixes
• Docker image

Proper release notes coming soon

v4.0.0-beta.11

• #1172 - Skip initial verification in case of dynamic repositories contributed by Geert van Horrik (GeertvanHorrik)
• #1169 - When HEAD is tagged, tell user that tag will be used contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1167 - Only update assembly info files if needed, fixes #1151 contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1165 - Feature/print sha which was excluded contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1153 - When support the deployment version of Clickonce?
• #1152 - Feature Request: Ability to update the version in a nuspec file
• #1151 - AssemblyInfo.cs file has last modified updated even when nothing changed
• #1148 - CommitsSinceVersionSource is zero in release branch
• #1140 - Gitversion on Appveyor cannot find git directory
• #1137 - Incrementing semver through commit message doesn't work.
• #1135 - Property 'increment' not found on type 'GitVersion.Config'.
• #1134 - Error with /exec: System.ArgumentException: Item has already been added. Key in dictionary: 'CONFIGURATION' Key being added: 'Configuration'
• #1131 - Support depth=x on VSTS
• #1129 - Directory spaces are not supported?
• #1127 - Does it work on TFS 2017
• #1126 - How to use GitVersion in Wix projects?
• #1124 - GitVersionTask 3.6.5 ignoring GitVersion.yml in project dir
• #1121 - Solution with multiple projects and submodules
• #1117 - Add debug switch to launch debugger
• #1115 - Support the ability to Label Sources using GitVersion.NuGetVersion
• #1114 - Help: how do I achieve the following configuration
• #1113 - Unable to increment builds using +semver: major etc
• #1108 - Default inherit infinite recurse
• #1098 - when ran as buildserver doesn't retrieve tags if inside a subfolder +enhancement
• #1071 - AssemblyVersion not updated to SemVer
• #1068 - Release version increment based on commits
• #1061 - Package GitVersionTask is not compatible with .NETCoreApp,Version=v1.0 or .NETFramework,Version=v4.6
• #1060 - GitVersionTask not getting restored using Project.json
• #1051 - Global Parameters not accessible in VS 2015 post build event.
• #1048 - Exception when using assembly-informational-version in GitVersion.yml
• #648 - GitVersionConfig.yaml Should Include Environment Variables
• #621 - New version mode for doing incremental builds of a prerelease

Commits: 5e3d9ea...cc28b2d

v4.0.0-beta.10

• #1163 - GitVersionTask should use .git relative to project directory contributed by (mrswain)
• #1162 - GitVersionTask uses .git relative to SolutionDir
• #1161 - Problem with AssemblyVersion being higher than pre-release when dealing with nuspec files
• #1155 - Adds /version switch contributed by Kevin Johnson (kjjuno)
• #1149 - Preserve existing file encoding if it can be easily determined otherwise use UTF8 with BOM. contributed by Kevin Lewis (kll)
• #1147 - Fix typo in gitflow-examples contributed by Ross Smith II (rasa)
• #1146 - CommitsSinceVersionSource number moving backwards
• #1144 - Add check to see if a logger is enabled before logging contributed by Thomas (tomap)
• #1143 - update nuget packages contributed by Thomas (tomap)
• #1142 - no 'gitversion.properties' file generated under Jenkins
• #1138 - Commit message counted twice? contributed by (LarsAndreasEk)
• #1136 - Added test for issue #1046 & fix proposition contributed by (czesiu)
• #1133 - Update mainline-development.md contributed by Jakub Konecki (jkonecki)
• #1123 - GitVersion Task in Team Services throws exception if mode is set to Mainline
• #1120 - Error executing GitVersion : exception during deserialization ---> System.ArgumentException: Requested value 'MainLine' was not found.
• #1119 - Inject into correct point in build pipeline for VS 2017 contributed by Oren Novotny (onovotny)
• #1116 - More logging when preparing the git repository contributed by Daniel Rose (DanielRose)
• #1111 - Fix typo. contributed by Daniel Rose (DanielRose)
• #1106 - Cache merge base contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1097 - GitVersion.CommandLine does not work on Linux +fix
• #1096 - TFS2017 - install fails
• #1074 - UpdateAssemblyInfo strips byte order mark
• #1073 - #953 Fix dynamic repositories contributed by Geert van Horrik (GeertvanHorrik)
• #1046 - Duplicated version for release branch observed
• #980 - Update version in project.json files contributed by Robert Wagner (droyad)
• #947 - GitVersion CommandLine doesn't show its own version number +enhancement

Commits: e90c685...93d0e01

v4.0.0-beta.9

This release also fixes a possibility of gitversion never exiting. Ensure you update from beta.8

• #1100 - Caching to improve performance contributed by Daniel Rose (DanielRose)
• #1081 - Support setting Verbosity of GitVersion contributed by Thomas (tomap)

Commits: b4cd12c...d4801d7

v4.0.0-beta.8

• #1104 - Add Homebrew badge contributed by Asbjørn Ulsberg (asbjornu)
• #1102 - Feature branch does not pick up version contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1095 - Added quotes arround sourcesdirectory to support paths with spaces contributed by Christian Jungerius (chrisism)
• #1093 - Control when an attempt is made to upload releasenotes.md contributed by Gary Ewan Park (gep13)
• #1087 - Fixes #1053: exclude NCrunch ItemGroup when NCrunch not present contributed by Andrew Brown (AGBrown)
• #1075 - Build fails when VSTS Agent has a space character in it's working directory
  • #1086 - Support for space character in the VSTS Agent working directory contributed by Johan Classon (johanclasson)
• #1085 - Use the Inherit strategy by default contributed by Daniel Rose (DanielRose)
• #1082 - Fixes #1053: exclude NCrunch ItemGroup when NCrunch not present contributed by Andrew Brown (AGBrown)
• #1078 - added rxui, akavache, splat :party: contributed by Geoffrey Huntley (ghuntley)
• #1072 - Remove no break space character that messes up header contributed by Marijn van der Zee (serra)
• #1070 - Use the first matched branch configuration contributed by Austen (cvpcs)
• #1058 - GH1057: Only run GitReleaseNotes if token exists contributed by Gary Ewan Park (gep13)
• #1056 - GH1055: Removed commas from tags section contributed by Gary Ewan Park (gep13)
• #1047 - Update version-increments.md contributed by Wesley Lomax (Wesley-Lomax)
• #1045 - Update libgit2sharp contributed by Warren Kaufman (discomurray)
• #1042 - Switch to NUnit3TestAdapter contributed by Max Raab (maxraab)
• #1040 - GitVersion fails to install in non-core project.json project
  • #1041 - Move GitVersionTask into build directory contributed by Taylor Southwick (twsouthwick)
• #1037 - Add diag switch contributed by Jake Ginnivan (JakeGinnivan)
• #1009 - Add various tests for inheriting version numbers in feature branches. contributed by Daniel Rose (DanielRose)
• #1004 - Feature branch does not pick up version contributed by Max Raab (maxraab)
• #881 - Explicit branch match should override default config +enhancement

Commits: b74d49d...a88e863

v3.6.5

NCrunch fix