Source Plugin Release Stages

Official source plugins go through two release stages: Preview, and GA.

Both Preview and GA plugins follow semantic versioning. The main differences between the two stages are:

Preview plugins are still experimental and may have frequent breaking changes.
Preview plugins might get deprecated due to lack of usage.
Long Term Support with community Discord and bug fixes is only guaranteed for GA plugins.

Semantic Versioning

For version Major.Minor.Patch:

Major is incremented when there are breaking changes (e.g. breaking configuration spec structure, column type changes).
Minor is incremented when we add features in a backwards compatible way.
Patch is incremented when we fix bugs in a backwards compatible way.