Developing software means a continuously changing code base. Not every version of the software is supposed to be installed in production. Most of the versions are pushed to the repository on a branch that is half complete. Some versions are meant only for testing and a few are meant to be installed in production even if only some of those will finally get to production.
Almost all the time, the releases follow the semantic versioning that we discussed in an earlier section. The versions that are meant only to be tested usually have the -SNAPSHOT modifier at the end of the version number. For example, the 1.3.12-SNAPSHOT version is the version that was once debugged, and is going to become the 1.3.12 version. The snapshot ...
