just wondering what a technical release means in t...

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[Piotr Krzemiński]

just wondering what a technical release means in the context of https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.7.22

This is a technical release. It doesn’t contain any fixes that aren’t included in Kotlin 1.7.21.

Version 1.7.22 of the Kotlin plugin will not be available for downloading or installing in any IDEs.

asking because my Renovate bot did detect this new version and I’ve spent some time on it. Just curious what the technical releases are for (who’s the target audience for them?) and if they are going to happen often

[Big Chungus]

Testing ci changes? 😀

[Piotr Krzemiński]

@Margarita Bobova ☝️ just curious 🙏 🙂

[Marina Shishkina]

Hi! There are rebuilt artifacts with a compiler with a proper name (the same version, but the naming is updated). The technical release was required for our internal projects. It's an exceptional case and is not expected to be frequent.