TypeScript 5.9 is added under the latest tag, but should have been the RC tag?

[jpbnetley]

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According to the typescript blog: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescript-5-9-rc/
it states

Today we are excited to announce the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 5.9!
To get started using the Release Candidate, you can get it through npm with the following command:
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  npm install -D typescript@rc

But on NPM it shows under the latest tag: https://www.npmjs.com/package/typescript?activeTab=versions

If I am misunderstanding, feel free to close this issue :)

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🙁 Actual behavior

npm i tyepscript@latest will install 5.9 even though it is not release as stable yet.

🙂 Expected behavior

I expected release 5.9 to be under the npm rc tag and not latest, since 5.9 is still a release candidate I believe.

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[MartinJohns]

From the blog post you linked:

we actually plan to release TypeScript 5.9 as a final release candidate within the next week.

The post is about a week old. They simply released 5.9 already. The wording is odd, they clearly mean to release the fina lversion, not another "final" release candidate (RC). But there was a 5.9.1-rc version.

[jpbnetley]

ooh, yes good point.
I also saw the release notes is pending: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/releases/tag/v5.9.2
So thought it might have been an accidental release.
But your comment above makes me believe it was intended then.
Thank you for clarifying :)

[jpbnetley]

As pointed out here: #62166 (comment)
It seems like it was intended to release 5.9 under latest. :)