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Managing Versions

Managing Versions

Managing CLI Versions

Downloading the CLI

All CloudQuery CLI versions are available for download on the releases page (opens in a new tab).

Homebrew

To update the CLI via Homebrew, run:

brew upgrade cloudquery/tap/cloudquery

To install a specific version of the CLI, run:

brew install cloudquery/tap/cloudquery@<version>

(e.g. brew install cloudquery/tap/cloudquery@2.3.10)

Managing Plugin Versions

CloudQuery plugins are versioned independently of the CLI. Releases happen on a weekly schedule, using semantic versioning to indicate breaking schema changes as described in Source Plugin Release Stages. We recommend pinning plugin versions to avoid unexpected changes to your data model, and only upgrading to new versions when you need to take advantage of new features or bug fixes. That said, if you are okay with the risk of breaking changes (or able to use migrate_mode: forced), this how-to guide (opens in a new tab) describes how to keep plugin versions up-to-date automatically using Renovate. In all cases, we recommend performing upgrades in a staging environment first before applying them to production.

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.

Source Plugin Release Stages

Official source plugins (opens in a new tab) go through two release stages: Preview and Generally Available (GA).

Both Preview and GA plugins follow semantic versioning.

The main differences between the two stages are:

  1. Preview plugins are experimental and may have frequent breaking changes.
  2. Preview plugins might get deprecated due to lack of usage.
  3. Premium plugins in Preview are free to use.
  4. Long Term Support and bug fixes are only guaranteed for plugins that are Generally Available.