Feature Request: Add Stable/Prerelease Tags to GitHub Releases #20816

mymichu started this conversation in Feature Requests

mymichu
Nov 18, 2025

Problem Statement
Currently, Coder releases do not have clear tagging to distinguish between stable releases and prereleases on GitHub. The only way to identify whether a release is stable is by reading the release notes manually.

This creates challenges for:

Automated deployment pipelines that need to identify stable releases programmatically
CI/CD workflows that should only deploy stable versions to production

Proposed Solution
Use in release tags to clearly distinguish between stable and prerelease versions:

Stable releases:
v1.2.0
v2.0.0
v1.5.3

Prereleases:
v1.2.0-prerelease
v1.2.0-alpha
v1.2.0-beta
v1.2.0-rc.1

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matifali
Nov 18, 2025
Maintainer

The only way to identify whether a release is stable is by reading the release notes manually.

Hi, https://github.com/coder/coder/releases/latest always points to our latest stable release.

But For the images i.e. ghcr.io/coder/coder:latest it points to the highest semantic version; https://github.com/coder/coder/pkgs/container/coder

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