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68/100 · Adequate
What the developer wrote
Authored by Tobin C. Harding
bitcoin: Use beta in release name
`rc` is definitely different to alhpa/beta but the difference between
alpha and beta is not so clear. Also we have numbers as well (eg
`-beta.0`, `-beta.1`).
In `secp256k1` we chose to use `-beta.0`, shall we just do the same here?
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What changed, and why it matters
This commit simply renames a pre-release version label from 'alpha.0' to 'beta.0' in package metadata and lock files. It makes no code changes and has no security relevance.
Recommended action
No action required; this is a routine release-management change.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The diff updates the bitcoin crate version string from 0.33.0-alpha.0 to 0.33.0-beta.0 in bitcoin/Cargo.toml, Cargo-minimal.lock, and Cargo-recent.lock. No source code, dependencies, features, or APIs are modified.
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diff --git a/Cargo-minimal.lock b/Cargo-minimal.lock
index 847aea25..06a8bc12 100644
--- a/Cargo-minimal.lock
+++ b/Cargo-minimal.lock
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "bitcoin"
-version = "0.33.0-alpha.0"
+version = "0.33.0-beta.0"
dependencies = [
"arbitrary",
"base58ck",
diff --git a/Cargo-recent.lock b/Cargo-recent.lock
index 045b2218..5efb757d 100644
--- a/Cargo-recent.lock
+++ b/Cargo-recent.lock
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ dependencies = [
[[package]]
name = "bitcoin"
-version = "0.33.0-alpha.0"
+version = "0.33.0-beta.0"
dependencies = [
"arbitrary",
"base58ck",
diff --git a/bitcoin/Cargo.toml b/bitcoin/Cargo.toml
index 9ed73b0b..2c6c7043 100644
--- a/bitcoin/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bitcoin/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
[package]
name = "bitcoin"
-version = "0.33.0-alpha.0"
+version = "0.33.0-beta.0"
authors = ["Andrew Poelstra <apoelstra@wpsoftware.net>"]
license = "CC0-1.0"
repository = "https://github.com/rust-bitcoin/rust-bitcoin/"
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