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# Semantic Versioning 2.0.0

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 11 min read · 15 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Build metadata may be denoted by appending a plus sign and a series of dot separated identifiers immediately following the patch or pre-release version. Identifiers must comprise only ASCII alphanumerics and hyphens [0-9A-Za-z-]. Identifiers MUST NOT be empty. Build metadata must be ignored when determining version precedence.

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