Release Candidate Pre Release not Shown

[nobicycle]

Project with incorrect version Joomla

Please put a web link to a project location that you're checking with lastversion here. https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases

To Reproduce lastversion --pre --assets https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases

What command have you run, e.g. lastversion <project location> --verbose

Expected behavior

To show the Release_Candidate prre release

What output you expect to receive, e.g. correct version in your opinion.

Program output

lastversion --pre --assets  https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/download/5.1.0-alpha3/Joomla_5.1.0-alpha3-Alpha-Full_Package.tar.gz
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/download/5.1.0-alpha3/Joomla_5.1.0-alpha3-Alpha-Full_Package.tar.zst
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/download/5.1.0-alpha3/Joomla_5.1.0-alpha3-Alpha-Full_Package.zip
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/download/5.1.0-alpha3/Joomla_5.1.0-alpha3-Alpha-Update_Package.tar.gz
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/download/5.1.0-alpha3/Joomla_5.1.0-alpha3-Alpha-Update_Package.tar.zst
https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/download/5.1.0-alpha3/Joomla_5.1.0-alpha3-Alpha-Update_Package.zip

What output does lastversion give when being run?

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[dvershinin]

There's an alpha release https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases/tag/5.1.0-alpha3 so technically the output from lastversion is correct. The --pre switch is to return whatever latest pre-release/not-stable version there is. 5.1.0-alpha3 is a newer version than 5.0.3 rc, despite being tagged earlier.

You can exclude non-desired stability or whitelist desired one. Will achieve same effect now:

lastversion --pre --assets https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases --exclude alpha
lastversion --pre --assets https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/releases --only rc

[nobicycle]

thanks