Software EngineeringOpen accessPublished 2 Oct 2026
Releasing Craft CMS plugins — tagging, Packagist propagation, GitHub releases, branch promotion, shared-library ordering, history rewrites. ALWAYS load when cutting, preparing, verifying, or debugging a plugin release: bumping a version, dating a changelog, creating or moving a git tag, or checking what Packagist serves. Covers the composer.json version key (bump-or-omit trade-off, same-commit rule, verifying the tag's own blob), Packagist verification via repo.packagist.org/p2, the 'Skipped tag' silent failure, the tag recreation risk model (unserved safe, served never), GitHub release objects drifting from tags, gh api PATCH wiping tag_name, blank bodies from empty --no…