From what we can see, `build-info.json` is a vestigal file that we were
previously including in builds but are no longer since 2022 (see
https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/23257, which removes
`build-info.json` which would have broken
scripts/release/build-release-locally-commands/add-build-info-json.js).
Since this file is no longer built, instead of looking it up we default
to the `version` that was passed in as an argument to
scripts/release/prepare-release-from-npm.js. Since `version` is what is
pulled from npm, there should only be 1 consistent version for all the
packages that are pulled. Therefore, only 1 version (eg canary) needs to
be replaced to the new stable version.
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* #32777
It's getting unwieldy to list every single package to skip in these
commands when you only want to publish one, ie
eslint-plugin-react-hooks.
This adds a new `onlyPackages` and `publishVersion` option to the
publish commands to make that easier.
The "next" prerelease channel represents what will be published the next
time we do a stable release. We publish a new "next" release every day
using a timed CI workflow.
When we introduced this prerelease channel a few years ago, another name
we considered was "canary". But I proposed "next" instead to create a
greater distinction between this channel and the "experimental" channel
(which is published at the same cadence, but includes extra experimental
features), because some other projects use "canary" to refer to releases
that are more unstable than how we would use it.
The main downside of "next" is someone might mistakenly assume the name
refers to Next.js. We were aware of this risk at the time but didn't
think it would be an issue in practice.
However, colloquially, we've ended up referring to this as the "canary"
channel anyway to avoid precisely that confusion.
So after further discussion, we've agreed to rename to "canary".
This affects the label used in the version string (e.g.
`18.3.0-next-a1c2d3e4` becomes `18.3.0-canary-a1c2d3e4`) as well as the
npm dist tags used to publish the releases. For now, I've chosen to
publish the canaries using both `@canary` and `@next` dist tags, so that
downstream consumers who might depend on `@next` have time to adjust. We
can remove that later after the change has been communicated.
The old version of prettier we were using didn't support the Flow syntax
to access properties in a type using `SomeType['prop']`. This updates
`prettier` and `rollup-plugin-prettier` to the latest versions.
I added the prettier config `arrowParens: "avoid"` to reduce the diff
size as the default has changed in Prettier 2.0. The largest amount of
changes comes from function expressions now having a space. This doesn't
have an option to preserve the old behavior, so we have to update this.
Change format of @next and @experimental release versions from <number>-<sha> to <number>-<sha>-<date> to make them more human readable. This format still preserves the ability for us to easily map a version number to the changes it contains, while also being able to more easily know at a glance how recent a release is.
