Typescript: Typescript versioning inconsitencies

[olmobrutall]

• Following the blog, looks like we are in Typescript 3.5, and TS 3.6 is in Beta
• But somehow the Microsoft.TypeScript.MSBuild 3.6 Nuget is already released for 18 days
• At the same time if you go to www.typescriptlang.org download for VS 2019, it recoments Typescript 3.4.1

Is there any reason for the inconsistencies? It makes it hard to tell collegues what version of TS to install.

[RyanCavanaugh]

Following the blog, looks like we are in Typescript 3.5, and TS 3.6 is in Beta

This is correct!

But somehow the Microsoft.TypeScript.MSBuild 3.6 Nuget is already released for 18 days

This is the beta. NuGet does not support non-numeric version numbers, so this is kind of what we have to do.

At the same time if you go to www.typescriptlang.org download for VS 2019, it recoments Typescript 3.4.1

The website needs a link update. This should point to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TypeScriptTeam.typescript-353

[MartinJohns]

This is the beta. NuGet does not support non-numeric version numbers [..]

NuGet supports pre-release packages with non-numeric characters in the pre-release version. You could use the version 3.6.0-beta.

[RyanCavanaugh]

Sorry, misunderstood what my coworker wrote. Our publishing script doesn't support publishing version numbers like that 🙃. We're looking into that for next version.

[orta]

The website links are now automated on deploys 👍

[HolgerJeromin]

The website links are now automated on deploys

http://www.typescriptlang.org/#download-links links to
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TypeScriptTeam.typescript-353
and the What's New section is not updated
http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-3-5.html

ref #31795

[orta]

This was all deployed, and maybe the site hadn't been updated at that point because it looks like everything is now up to date so I'm closing this issue

[olmobrutall]

@orta another TS version (3.7) and the Visual Studio 2019 download links in https://www.typescriptlang.org/#download-links are pointing again to an outdated version https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TypeScriptTeam.typescript-364

[olmobrutall]

Cmon guys.... you go here https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-3-7.html and looks like the page is updated

But then you click in Get and and the Visual Studio 2019 link is still pointing to https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TypeScriptTeam.typescript-364

[orta]

Looks like the script to find the latest isn't finding 3.7.2, I Wonder why

[orta]

I've updated the script https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Website/pull/146

[HolgerJeromin]

The page links to the newest vspackage. Thanks for that.
But what is the status of 3.7.3?

cc @weswigham

[weswigham]

It's published to npm 🤷‍♀

[HolgerJeromin]

I am missing a Typescript SDK in Visual Studio Marketplace for VS2019 and nuget packages. Like the releases before...

[uniqueiniquity]

Hello @HolgerJeromin,

The NuGet package and TypeScript SDK will be available soon (within the next 30 minutes).
I apologize for the delay!

[HolgerJeromin]

Groundhog Day!
Again, no release-notes and no up to date link for VisualStudio. 8-(
3.8 was released 5 days ago...

[HolgerJeromin]

Perhaps the link should be replaced by this search:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/search?term=TypeScriptTeam&target=VS&vsVersion=vs2019&sortBy=UpdatedDate

Fixed with https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Website/commit/87d04205863b48d5daa47957fbcb6390a4390576