# OpenUSD v25.05.01-alpha preview available on GitHub

**URL:** <https://forum.aousd.org/t/openusd-v25-05-01-alpha-preview-available-on-github/2450>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Created:** [May 13, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.aousd.org/t/openusd-v25-05-01-alpha-preview-available-on-github/2450 "2025-05-13T18:31:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![sunya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@sunya](https://forum.aousd.org/u/sunya)\
**Post date:** [May 13, 2025, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.aousd.org/t/openusd-v25-05-01-alpha-preview-available-on-github/2450/1 "2025-05-13T18:31:22Z")

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Hi all,

An alpha preview of the upcoming v25.05.01 patch release is now available on GitHub under the `v25.05.01-alpha` branch. This contains fixes for a handful of issues that were reported shortly after the v25.05 release a few weeks ago. See the CHANGELOG below for more details.

This is a preview branch for testing. The `release` branch on GitHub and the `v25.05` tag have not changed. We intend to officially publish the v25.05.01 release next Monday, 5/19.

I also wanted to call out the change in versioning scheme. In the past, patch releases were denoted using an extra letter, e.g. v25.02a. We’ve received feedback that the extra letter makes parsing version numbers more complicated for tooling, so going forward we’ll be using an additional version number instead.

Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback about this release. Thanks!

- Sunya

> <https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenUSD/blob/1595c62ea8381b5b22eb8621afc8652f89b6136d/CHANGELOG.md>

We are planning to publish patch release v25.05.01 next Monday, 5/19. This fixes a handful of issues which were reported shortly after the v25.05 release a few weeks ago.

An alpha preview of this release is now available on GitHub under The fixes

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**Author:** ![nvmkuruc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/76d3ee/32.png) [@nvmkuruc](https://forum.aousd.org/u/nvmkuruc)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.aousd.org/t/openusd-v25-05-01-alpha-preview-available-on-github/2450/2 "2025-05-14T16:04:23Z")

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Hi @sunya. Thanks for making this available. Do you expect that your convention going forward will be that `alpha` will be a branch and `rc` will be tags?

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**Author:** ![sunya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de053/32.png) [@sunya](https://forum.aousd.org/u/sunya)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.aousd.org/t/openusd-v25-05-01-alpha-preview-available-on-github/2450/3 "2025-05-14T16:35:11Z")

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No, at the moment we don’t have any plans to change to our conventions for normal releases – we’ll continue to use tags on the `dev` branch for both `alpha` and `rc`. Previews for patch releases are a special case where we can’t use this strategy – we can’t tag the `dev` branch since we only want to cherry-pick certain commits, and we don’t want to update `release` prematurely.

We have been toying with the idea of using branches for normal releases too, but don’t have anything concrete yet. If/when we do, I’d expect we’d have broader discussions before making any changes.