Question: Releases are often tagged with -b, why?

[RGG-jayoung]

We're curious on the strategy around naming releases with -b. Assuming the -b suffix indicates beta, it is confusing because there is a long list of releases where some don't have the -b while others do. There is no clear indication of a stable, non-beta release. The screenshot below shows some of this.

If you could kindly provide clarification on:

• What is the difference of a release suffixed with -b vs. a numerical one?
• Are releases suffixed with -b to be considered stable?
• Is there a plan where this becomes consistent in the future? SPM will pull in the highest numeric value when things are mixed like this... so it can have a project pull in a lower than intended version.

[username0x0a]

Additionally, Beta submissions on GitHub should be marked as pre-release (in release version details) so that it would also get a fancy, alarming tag to prevent us from using it without attention. 🤔