This document is meant to explain the release process of Biome, and hopefully answer some questions.
The team doesn't provide ETAs (Estimated Time of Arrival). The team believes that enforcing deadlines to a group of volunteers is counterproductive, and can have negative effects on people.
We publish pre-releases of the main @biomejs/biome package twice a week. These releases are built from main, they are meant for testing and verify that bugs are fixed.
These releases are published to pkg.pr.new, and an automated message is sent on Discord, in the #release channel.
Warning
Don't use prerelease in production. Artefacts in pkg.pr.new are purged after roughly 30 days.
Beta releases are published manually by the Core Contributors team, only this team has the rights to publish these releases.
These releases can be released on request, usually right before a stable release.
Beta releases are published on GitHub, and npmjs.org under the beta tag.
Beta releases are published manually by the Core Contributors team, only this team has the rights to publish these releases.
Stable releases are published on GitHub, and npmjs.org under the latest tag.