Build metadata is now supported and considered for equality checks and the equal constraint

Fixed

• #28: VersionConstraintParser does not support logical OR represented by single pipe (|) (Thanks @llaville)

Changed

• Internal Refactoring
• More scalar types

Added

• #24: Version::getOriginalString() added (Thanks @addshore)
• Version constraints using the caret operator (^) now honor pre-1.0 releases, e.g. ^0.3 translates to 0.3.*)
• Various integration tests for version constraint processing

Fixed

• #23: Tilde operator without patch level

Fixed

• #22: make dev suffix rank works for uppercase too

This release now supports PHP 7.2+ and PHP ^8.0. No other changes included.

Fixed

• Versions without a pre-release suffix are now always considered greater
  than versions without a pre-release suffix. Example: 3.0.0 > 3.0.0-alpha.1

Changes to public API:

• PreReleaseSuffix::construct(): optional parameter $number removed
• PreReleaseSuffix::isGreaterThan(): introduced
• Version::hasPreReleaseSuffix(): introduced

Added

• #11: Added support for pre-release version suffixes. Supported values are:

  • dev
  • beta (also abbreviated form b)
  • rc
  • alpha (also abbreviated form a)
  • patch (also abbreviated form p)

  All values can be followed by a number, e.g. beta3.

  When comparing versions, the pre-release suffix is taken into account. Example:
  1.5.0 > 1.5.0-beta1 > 1.5.0-alpha3 > 1.5.0-alpha2 > 1.5.0-dev11

Changed

• reorganized the source directories

Fixed

• #10: Version numbers containing
  a numeric suffix as seen in Debian packages are now supported.

• Change InvalidVersionException hierarchy