<!doctype html> <html> <title>npm-version</title> <meta http-equiv="content-type" value="text/html;utf-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../static/style.css"> <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.npmjs.org/doc/cli/npm-version.html"> <script async=true src="../../static/toc.js"></script> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <h1><a href="../cli/npm-version.html">npm-version</a></h1> <p>Bump a package version</p> <h2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2> <pre><code>npm version [<newversion> | major | minor | patch | premajor | preminor | prepatch | prerelease] </code></pre><h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2> <p>Run this in a package directory to bump the version and write the new data back to the package.json file.</p> <p>The <code>newversion</code> argument should be a valid semver string, <em>or</em> a valid second argument to semver.inc (one of "patch", "minor", "major", "prepatch", "preminor", "premajor", "prerelease"). In the second case, the existing version will be incremented by 1 in the specified field.</p> <p>If run in a git repo, it will also create a version commit and tag, and fail if the repo is not clean.</p> <p>If supplied with <code>--message</code> (shorthand: <code>-m</code>) config option, npm will use it as a commit message when creating a version commit. If the <code>message</code> config contains <code>%s</code> then that will be replaced with the resulting version number. For example:</p> <pre><code>npm version patch -m "Upgrade to %s for reasons" </code></pre><p>If the <code>sign-git-tag</code> config is set, then the tag will be signed using the <code>-s</code> flag to git. Note that you must have a default GPG key set up in your git config for this to work properly. For example:</p> <pre><code>$ npm config set sign-git-tag true $ npm version patch You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "isaacs (http://blog.izs.me/) <i@izs.me>" 2048-bit RSA key, ID 6C481CF6, created 2010-08-31 Enter passphrase: </code></pre><h2 id="see-also">SEE ALSO</h2> <ul> <li><a href="../cli/npm-init.html"><a href="../cli/npm-init.html">npm-init(1)</a></a></li> <li><a href="../files/package.json.html"><a href="../files/package.json.html">package.json(5)</a></a></li> <li><a href="../misc/semver.html"><a href="../misc/semver.html">semver(7)</a></a></li> </ul> </div> <table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 id=npmlogo> <tr><td style="width:180px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=18> </td></tr> <tr><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4> </td><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td><td colspan=6 style="width:60px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=2 style="width:20px;height:30px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=4 colspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:20px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3 colspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td></tr> <tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=2> </td></tr> <tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td></tr> <tr><td style="width:60px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=6> </td><td colspan=10 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td></tr> <tr><td colspan=5 style="width:50px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=4> </td><td style="width:90px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=9> </td></tr> </table> <p id="footer">npm-version — npm@2.1.3</p>