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jcoffey-dev 2f55b1e3e1 Stop borrowing Stalwart's version number
The middle field was the Stalwart generation a build targeted -- 16 for
0.16 -- which leaves nowhere to go when Stalwart reaches 1.0. There is no
honest value for it: 2.1 sorts below the 2.16 already deployed, so every
image and About screen would have read as a downgrade. Tying our
numbering to somebody else's was the mistake, and which Stalwart a build
needs is said properly in the README badge and KNOWN-ISSUES, where it can
be precise rather than one digit.

The version is now the date of the commit it was built from, and the pull
request moves after the + as build metadata. It is provenance rather than
a rank: at the rate they merge here it climbs without bound and says
nothing about how new a build is. Everything after the + is ignored when
versions are compared, which reads correctly -- two builds from the same
day differ in where they came from, not in age -- and nothing depends on
that comparison anyway, since images are pruned by creation time and a
rollback names a git ref.

The date is the commit's own, so rebuilding an old commit gives the
version it had the first time. package.json is no longer the source of
anything and sits at 0.0.0, which is what an unversioned build reports
and is meant to look wrong.

The formatting is a pure function now, so the rules have tests. They had
none while the version was the thing naming every image we ship.
2026-08-30 14:38:07 -07:00

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/**
* Work out this build's version: `2026.8.30+pr129`.
*
* 2026.8.30 the date of the commit this was built from
* +pr129 the pull request it arrived through
*
* The date leads because ihasmail's version used to be `2.16.<pr>`, where `16`
* was the Stalwart generation it targeted -- and Stalwart 1.0 leaves that with
* nowhere to go. `2.1` would have sorted *below* the `2.16` already deployed,
* so every image and About screen would have read as a downgrade. Tying our
* numbering to somebody else's was the mistake; which Stalwart a build needs is
* said properly in the README badge and KNOWN-ISSUES, where it can be precise
* ("0.16 or newer; tested against 0.16.19") rather than one digit.
*
* The pull request moved into build metadata, after the `+`, because it is
* provenance rather than a position in a sequence: at a hundred merges a week
* it climbs without bound and says nothing about how new a build is. SemVer
* ignores everything after the `+` when comparing versions, which is the right
* reading -- two builds from the same day differ in where they came from, not
* in rank. Nothing here relies on that comparison anyway: images are pruned
* oldest-first by creation time and rollbacks name a git ref.
*
* A commit that did not arrive through a pull request carries its short SHA
* instead -- `2026.8.30+g1fa6578` -- which is honest about being some commit on
* that day rather than claiming a pull request it was only built after.
*
* The date is the commit's own, not today's, so rebuilding an old commit gives
* the same answer it gave the first time. It comes from the commit object,
* timezone included, so two machines agree.
*
* Nothing writes a version back into the tree: a committed one would always be
* describing a merge that had not happened yet, and every branch would collide
* on the same line. `package.json` no longer carries it either -- npm wants the
* field, so it stays at `0.0.0`, which is what an unversioned build reports and
* is meant to look wrong.
*
* `.dockerignore` excludes `.git`, so an image build cannot run any of this.
* It takes the answer through `--build-arg IHASMAIL_VERSION=...` instead, and
* whoever builds is responsible for computing it -- see ihasmail-deploy.sh.
*/
import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
import { dirname, join } from "node:path";
const root = join(dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), "..");
/** What a build with nothing to go on reports, and it should look wrong. */
export const UNVERSIONED = "0.0.0";
function git(...args) {
return execFileSync("git", args, { cwd: root, encoding: "utf8", stdio: ["ignore", "pipe", "ignore"] }).trim();
}
const PR_SUBJECT = /^Merge pull request #(\d+)\b/;
/**
* The version for a commit, from the three things about it that decide one.
* Pure, so the rules can be exercised without a repository staged to produce
* them: `{ date: "2026-08-30", subject: "Merge pull request #129 from ...",
* sha: "1fa6578" }` gives `2026.8.30+pr129`.
*
* Leading zeros are stripped because a version field may not carry them, so
* September is `9` rather than `09`.
*/
export function formatVersion({ date, subject = "", sha }) {
const [y, m, d] = date.split("-");
const calendar = `${Number(y)}.${Number(m)}.${Number(d)}`;
const pr = PR_SUBJECT.exec(subject)?.[1];
return pr ? `${calendar}+pr${pr}` : `${calendar}+g${sha}`;
}
/**
* The version for the commit checked out here, or null when there is no git to
* ask -- an unpacked tarball, or the Docker build context.
*/
export function versionFromGit() {
let head;
let date;
try {
head = git("rev-parse", "--short", "HEAD");
// %cs is the committer date in the commit's own timezone, which is stored
// in the commit -- so this does not depend on the clock or zone of whoever
// is building.
date = git("show", "-s", "--format=%cs", "HEAD");
} catch {
return null;
}
if (!/^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$/.test(date)) return null;
let subject = "";
try {
subject = git("show", "-s", "--format=%s", "HEAD");
} catch {
/* no subject to read; fall through to the SHA */
}
return formatVersion({ date, subject, sha: head });
}
/** Whatever the environment was told, else git, else an answer that looks wrong. */
export function resolveVersion() {
const fromEnv = process.env.IHASMAIL_VERSION?.trim();
if (fromEnv) return fromEnv;
return versionFromGit() ?? UNVERSIONED;
}
// `node scripts/version.mjs` prints it, for shell scripts and CI.
if (process.argv[1] && fileURLToPath(import.meta.url) === process.argv[1]) {
process.stdout.write(resolveVersion() + "\n");
}