fix(releases): don't drop the prerelease marker when comparing versions

A MinVer dev build on main computes a prerelease of its own guessed next
version (e.g. 2.9.1-alpha.0.14 after tag v2.9.0), which already sorts
above the last tag by numeric core, so the update banner correctly
stays quiet there. But the reduction to a bare numeric core meant a
genuine new release landing at exactly that guessed version (v2.9.1
real) compared equal to the still-running prerelease and the banner
never fired. A prerelease now only loses to a real release of the same
core, not to another prerelease of the same core.

Verified against the live repo: latest published tag is v2.9.0; a
Release build of this worktree (14 commits ahead) reports
AssemblyInformationalVersion 2.9.1-alpha.0.14+<sha>.
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mika kuns
2026-08-10 14:27:23 +02:00
parent 6a2a19cc9e
commit 84715665c2
3 changed files with 26 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -111,7 +111,9 @@ sealed class Program
var releases = sp.GetRequiredService<IReleaseClient>();
var informational = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly()?
.GetCustomAttribute<AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute>()?.InformationalVersion;
// Strip MinVer build metadata ("+sha") and any prerelease suffix for the update-compare.
// Strip MinVer build metadata ("+sha") only — keep the prerelease suffix
// (e.g. "-alpha.0.14"), VersionComparer needs it to tell a dev build on
// main apart from a tagged release of the same numeric core.
var version = (informational ?? "0.0.0").Split('+')[0];
return new UpdateCheckService(releases, version);
});
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@@ -10,7 +10,17 @@ public static class VersionComparer
| !Version.TryParse(CoreVersion(current), out var cv);
if (unparseable) return new VersionCompareResult(false, true);
return new VersionCompareResult(lv > cv, false);
if (lv != cv) return new VersionCompareResult(lv > cv, false);
// Same numeric core: a MinVer dev build sitting on main between two tags
// reports a prerelease of its own guessed *next* version (e.g. after tag
// v1.4.0, main computes "1.4.1-alpha.0.12" — already ahead of the tag by
// core, handled above). But when a real release is tagged at exactly that
// guessed version, the tag itself has no prerelease suffix while a still-
// running dev build does — that dev build must still count as older, or a
// genuine new release would be silently missed.
var isNewer = HasPrerelease(current) && !HasPrerelease(latest);
return new VersionCompareResult(isNewer, false);
}
// Reduce a tag/version to its numeric core: drop a leading "v", MinVer build
@@ -18,4 +28,7 @@ public static class VersionComparer
// which System.Version can parse. So "v1.0.2-alpha+abc" -> "1.0.2".
private static string CoreVersion(string value)
=> (value ?? "").TrimStart('v', 'V').Split('+')[0].Split('-')[0];
private static bool HasPrerelease(string value)
=> (value ?? "").TrimStart('v', 'V').Split('+')[0].Contains('-');
}
@@ -17,6 +17,15 @@ public class VersionComparerTests
[InlineData("v1.0.2-alpha+1c764dae", "1.0.0", true, false)] // v-prefix + prerelease + build metadata combined
[InlineData("1.0.2-alpha+abc", "1.0.2-alpha", false, false)] // same core -> not newer
[InlineData("1.2.0-rc1", "1.2.0", false, false)] // prerelease of an already-installed release
// A dev build sitting on main computes a MinVer prerelease of its own guessed next
// version, ahead of the last tag by core -> no banner (real-world repro: latest
// published tag v2.9.0, worktree 14 commits ahead builds "2.9.1-alpha.0.14+sha").
[InlineData("2.9.0", "2.9.1-alpha.0.14", false, false)]
// A genuine new release lands at exactly the version a running dev build had
// already guessed -> the release must still win over the still-running prerelease.
[InlineData("1.4.1", "1.4.1-alpha.0.12", true, false)]
// An installed real release exactly matching the latest tag stays "up to date".
[InlineData("1.4.1", "1.4.1", false, false)]
public void Compare_ParseableVersions(string latest, string current, bool expectedNewer, bool expectedUnparseable)
{
var result = VersionComparer.Compare(latest, current);