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Installing Solidity
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Versioning
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Solidity versions follow `semantic versioning <https://semver.org>` and in addition to
releases, **nightly development builds** are also made available. The nightly builds
are not guaranteed to be working and despite best efforts they might contain undocumented
and/or broken changes.
After a release is made, the patch version level is bumped, because we assume that only
patch level changes follow. When changes are merged, the version should be bumped according
to semver and the severity of the change. Finally, a release is always made with the version
of the current nightly build, but without the ``prerelease`` specifier.
Example:
- 0) the 0.4.0 release is made
- 1) nightly build has a version of 0.4.1 from now on
- 2) non-breaking changes are introduced - no change in version
- 3) a breaking change is introduced - version is bumped to 0.5.0
- 4) the 0.5.0 release is made
This behaviour works well with the version pragma.
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