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The CockroachDB release cycles start on April 1 and October 1. The cycle dates were originally chosen to offset from the Go release cycle so that a major release of Go will precede a major release of CockroachDB by 2 months, though historically we have not upgraded to the latest Go release before a CockroachDB release.
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All versions post-1.0.0 should sort correctly with github.com/hashicorp/go-version and sort --version-sort. This ensures compatibility with downstream package managers’ version ordering. Note that the calver scheme is compatible with the previous semver scheme in this regard. Importantly, alphabetic components (e.g. beta, rc) can only appear after a - character, and must be separated from any following numeric components by a . character to ensure that e.g. 1.1-rc.2 sorts before 1.1-rc.10. For example, the following tags sort in the listed order:
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