semver

March 11, 2026 ยท View on GitHub

Semantic Versioning and Minimal Version Selection Library

Implementation

This library parses, validates and compares version numbers and version ranges, and resolves dependency graphs using Minimal Version Selection.

It uses the following formats:

Usage

import semver;
import mvs;

auto version1 = SemVer("1.0.0");
assert(version1.isValid);
assert(version1.isStable);

auto version2 = SemVer("1.0.0-rc.1");
assert(version2.isValid);
assert(!version2.isStable);

auto version3 = SemVer("1.2.3-rc.42");
assert(version3.major == 1);
assert(version3.minor == 2);
assert(version3.patch == 3);

assert(SemVer("1.0.0") > SemVer("1.0.0+build.1"));
assert(SemVer("1.0.0").differAt(SemVer("1.0.0+build.1")) == VersionPart.BUILD);

auto versionRange = SemVerRange(">=1.0.0");
assert(versionRange.isValid);

assert(SemVer("1.0.1").satisfies(versionRange));
assert(SemVer("1.1.0").satisfies(versionRange));

auto semVers = [SemVer("1.1.0"), SemVer("1.0.0"), SemVer("0.8.0")];
assert(semVers.maxSatisfying(SemVerRange("<=1.0.0")) == SemVer("1.0.0"));
assert(semVers.maxSatisfying(SemVerRange(">=1.0")) == SemVer("1.1.0"));
assert(semVers.minSatisfying(SemVerRange(">=1.0")) == SemVer("1.0.0"));
assert(semVers.minSatisfying(SemVerRange("<=0.8.0")) == SemVer("0.8.0"));

semVers = [SemVer("1.0.0+build.3"), SemVer("1.0.0+build.1"), SemVer("1.1.0")];
assert(semVers.maxSatisfying(SemVerRange("<=1.0.0")) == SemVer("1.0.0+build.3"));
assert(semVers.maxSatisfying(SemVerRange(">=1.0")) == SemVer("1.1.0"));

auto roots = [
    "A": SemVerRange(">=1.0.0"),
    "C": SemVerRange(">=1.2.0"),
];

auto available = [
    "A": [SemVer("1.0.0"), SemVer("1.1.0"), SemVer("2.0.0")],
    "B": [SemVer("1.0.0"), SemVer("1.1.0"), SemVer("2.0.0")],
    "C": [SemVer("1.0.0"), SemVer("1.2.0")],
];

auto dependencies = [
    ModuleVersion("A", SemVer("1.0.0")): ["B": SemVerRange(">=1.0.0")],
    ModuleVersion("A", SemVer("1.1.0")): ["B": SemVerRange(">=1.1.0")],
    ModuleVersion("A", SemVer("2.0.0")): ["B": SemVerRange(">=2.0.0")],
    ModuleVersion("B", SemVer("1.0.0")): ["C": SemVerRange(">=1.0.0")],
    ModuleVersion("B", SemVer("1.1.0")): ["C": SemVerRange(">=1.2.0")],
    ModuleVersion("B", SemVer("2.0.0")): ["C": SemVerRange(">=1.2.0")],
];

auto selected = minimalVersionSelection(roots, available, dependencies);
assert(selected["A"] == SemVer("1.0.0"));
assert(selected["B"] == SemVer("1.0.0"));
assert(selected["C"] == SemVer("1.2.0"));