generated: '2026-07-21'
method: searched
source: https://github.com/series-ai/venus-sdk-docs (SUMMARY.md, cli-reference.md, deploying-your-game.md, api/RELEASE_NOTES.md) + npm @series-inc/rundot-game-sdk
name: RUN.world SDK & Platform Lifecycle
description: >-
  How Series AI versions and evolves the RUN.world SDK, CLI, and games. The SDK
  ships as semver npm releases; individual SDK APIs are labeled by maturity
  (GA, BETA, 1.0 Candidate); the CLI carries stable and beta release channels;
  games are versioned per deploy with promotable named tags.
sdk_versioning:
  package: "@series-inc/rundot-game-sdk"
  scheme: semver (npm)
  current: 5.24.0
  release_count: 164
api_maturity_labels:
- label: GA
  meaning: Generally available, stable surface.
- label: BETA
  meaning: Preview API subject to change (e.g. Multiplayer, Simulation, Files, Image/Audio/Video Gen).
- label: "1.0 Candidate"
  meaning: Near-stable (e.g. Syncplay deterministic multiplayer).
cli_channels:
  stable: default (rundot update --stable)
  beta: opt-in (rundot update --beta); beta command groups gated behind RUNDOT_BETA_FEATURES=1
game_versioning:
  deploy: "rundot deploy bumps major|minor|patch (minor default)"
  tags: "named tags (prod/staging) point at versions; update-tag / copy-tag promote without redeploy"
  release_notes: >-
    Deploying with a changelog publishes a moderated release note; the Release
    Notes API lets a game read its own history and deep-link players.
    See changelog/series-ai-changelog.yml.
deprecation:
  policy: not formally published (no documented Sunset/Deprecation HTTP header policy)
  signal: API maturity labels (BETA/Candidate) indicate surfaces that may change
status_page:
  present: false
  note: No public status page found (status.run.world and series.inc/status did not resolve).