Could you please explain your version number convention?

[chrbertsch]

Until version 2.4.1. you seem to have followed semantic versioning.
Then you introduced an "a" in your version numbers, e.g. "3.0a5". What does this mean? Is this explained somewhere?
Thanks in advance for clarifying.

[modelonrobinandersson]

Hi @chrbertsch!
The "a" is to indicate an "alpha" release. In the future you will likely also see a "3.0b1" which would a beta release, or to be exact "the first beta release of 3.0".
Let me know if you have any more questions, happy to help!

[chrbertsch]

Ah, thanks.
Could you explain this in the "Relesae notes" and write the "alpha" explicitly as suggested in semantic versioning https://semver.org/?
And perhaps call the "release" of an alpha version "prerelease" in Github, see e.g. how we do it for the FMI Standard https://github.com/modelica/fmi-standard/releas

[modelonrobinandersson]

@chrbertsch sure no problem, I have clarified your request in the release.