Version Number Plugin | jenkins version
Thisplugincreatesanewversionnumberandstoresitintheenvironmentvariablewhosenameyouspecifyintheconfiguration.Inmanycases,theJenkinsbuildnumberisntrichenoughtoexpresstheinformationyoudliketheversionnumbertohave,andgeneratingexternally(aspartofthebuild)maynotbeanoptimalsolution.Thispluginallowsyoutogenerateaversionnumberthatcontainsmuchmoreinformation.ProjectstartdateTheversionnumbersystemhastheconceptofbuildsperday/week/month/year/alltime.Eachoftheseisthecalendarday/week/month/year;thatis,allbu...
This plugin creates a new version number and stores it in the environment variable whose name you specify in the configuration.In many cases, the Jenkins build number isnt rich enough to express the information youd like the version number to have, and generating externally (as part of the build) may not be an optimal solution. This plugin allows you to generate a version number that contains much more information.
Project start dateThe version number system has the concept of builds per day / week / month / year / all time. Each of these is the calendar day / week / month / year; that is, all builds in October will have the same build month, all builds in 2009 will have the same build year. These are based on the project start date, which is one of the user-configurable options.
Version Number Format StringThe version number format string is processed to create the version number thats stored in the named environment variable. Every character in the version number forma...