# A pragmatic guide to Go module updates

DevFeed: [A pragmatic guide to Go module updates](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/a-pragmatic-guide-to-go-module-updates-37826.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://carlosbecker.com/posts/pragmatic-gomod-bump/>)

Author: Carlos Alexandro Becker

Published: 2024-06-19T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Carlos Becker](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/carlos-becker.md>)

Topics: [Go Language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go-language.md>), [version](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/version.md>), [modules](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/modules.md>), [monorepo](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/monorepo.md>), [Script](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/script.md>), [opensource](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opensource.md>)

Tags: [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [modules](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/modules.md>), [monorepo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/monorepo.md>), [script](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/script.md>), [version](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/version.md>)

## AI overview

A practical guide to Go module versioning, covering tags for initial and major releases, module path changes for v2 and later, updating imports, monorepo tag prefixes, and retracting bad versions.

## Source excerpt

I thought I would share some quick bits about how to do go.mod version bumps.