newVersion

NewVersion is a placeholder term used in software development to denote the latest or upcoming release of a product, library, or API in documentation, templates, and examples. It is not a formal version number and should be replaced with a concrete version when materials are published or deployed. In practice, newVersion helps writers illustrate version-specific behavior without committing to a specific release.

Common contexts include release notes drafts, API reference guides, and build or dependency manifests used in tutorials. In documentation templates, fields may be labeled as newVersion to show where a version string will be substituted by the release engineer or by an automated process.

Relation to versioning: newVersion is used alongside established versioning schemes such as semantic versioning (major.minor.patch) and with version tags like latest, stable, or specific identifiers in package registries and container repositories. The term is especially common in examples where the actual version changes over time.

Best practices: Do not publish documents that still include newVersion; instead use placeholders that can be programmatically substituted or replace with concrete versions before release. In automated pipelines, parameterization can inject the current release version at build time.

Examples: A documentation page might show a curl request using a URL with /api/v1/newVersion, indicating where the version is inserted. In a package manifest, a dependency line may reference newVersion as a placeholder to be replaced during the release process.