2 posts tagged with "versioning"

In our recent guide on smart contract versioning, we explored how smart contracts can be versioned and suggested a few ideas on how to integrate contract versioning in your existing deployment pipelines. This post is a sequel explaining how similar ideas can be applied when you have upgradeable contracts.

In software engineering, versioning is a core tenet of release management. However, when smart contracts are deployed to Ethereum networks, the deployment artifacts live as 42-character hexadecimal strings, with no onchain versioning information being captured about them.