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Asked: 2026-06-17T07:35:17+00:00

Arg, I’m pretty sure this is a simple one but it’s hurting my brain

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Arg, I’m pretty sure this is a simple one but it’s hurting my brain heh.
Can I please get some input from the community?

Ok..
Let’s say I just released version 1.2.3.

My next release version will be 1.2.4.
So will my current working version be 1.2.3-SNAPSHOT or 1.2.4-SNAPSHOT? Is the snapshot version number the pre-release version or the post-release version? It’s pre-release, 1.2.4-SNAPSHOT, correct?

My next major release version will be 2.0.0.
Would that mean I should make my working copy 2.0.0-SNAPSHOT? Or something like 1.9.9-SNAPSHOT?

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  1. Editorial Team

    1.2.4-SNAPSHOT.

    1.2.4-snapshot is the “in-progress” default. usually (for big projects) the numbered releases would be

    • 1.2.4-m1 , 1.2.4-m2 (milestone builds)
    • 1.2.4-beta1 , 1.2.4-beta2 (beta builds)
    • 1.2.4-rc (release candidate)
    • 1.2.4 (or sometimes 1.2.4-final)

    and in between all those “big” releases the *-snapshots keep coming out all the time (sometimes several times a day) without getting their own version. logically the latest snapshot overrides any previous ones (though some maven repositories store a few of the prev snapshots as well)

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