nx release output wrong prerelease tag & versions both package.json

[kaankoken]

Current Behavior

In mono repo configuration, independent mode, everything is perfectly fine when I run nx release version. However, whenever I try to create a prerelease with the flags of --specifier=prerelease --preid="rc" versioning goes so wrong.

• The first problem is that when I try to run nx release version --preid="rc": it does not assign --specifier as prerelease. I have to assign it manually.

# Output

nx release version --verbose --preid="rc" --dry-run

 NX   Running release version for project: proj2

proj2 🔍 Reading data for package "proj2" from apps/proj2/package.json
proj2 📄 Resolved the current version as 0.2.0 from git tag "proj2@v0.2.0".
proj2 📄 Resolved the specifier as "patch" using git history and the conventional commits standard.
proj2 ✍️  New version 0.2.1 written to apps/proj2/package.json

 NX   Running release version for project: proj1

proj1 🔍 Reading data for package "proj1" from apps/proj1/package.json
proj1 📄 Resolved the current version as 0.1.2 from git tag "proj1@v0.1.2".
proj1 🚫 No changes were detected using git history and the conventional commits standard.
proj1 🚫 Skipping versioning "proj1" as no changes were detected.

UPDATE apps/proj2/package.json [dry-run]

    "private": true,
-   "version": "0.2.0"
+   "version": "0.2.1"
  }

• The second problem is that when I introduced the specifier, it updated both package.json file

# Output

nx release version --verbose --preid="rc" --specifier=prerelease --dry-run

 NX   Running release version for project: proj2

proj2 🔍 Reading data for package "proj2" from apps/proj2/package.json
proj2 📄 Resolved the current version as 0.2.0 from git tag "proj2@v0.2.0".
proj2 📄 Using the provided version specifier "prerelease".
proj2 ✍️  New version 0.2.1-rc.0 written to apps/proj2/package.json

 NX   Running release version for project: proj1

proj1 🔍 Reading data for package "proj1" from apps/proj1/package.json
proj1 📄 Resolved the current version as 0.1.2 from git tag "proj1@v0.1.2".
proj1 📄 Using the provided version specifier "prerelease".
proj1 ✍️  New version 0.1.3-rc.0 written to apps/proj1/package.json

UPDATE apps/proj2/package.json [dry-run]

    "private": true,
-   "version": "0.2.0"
+   "version": "0.2.1-rc.0"
  }

UPDATE apps/proj1/package.json [dry-run]

    "private": true,
-   "version": "0.1.2"
+   "version": "0.1.3-rc.0"
  }

• The last problem is that If the prerelease commit has BREAKING CHANGE or ! in a commit, it discards the breaking change part.

Commit Message: fix!: try prerelease

# prerelease output

nx release version --verbose --preid="rc" --specifier=prerelease --dry-run

 NX   Running release version for project: proj2

proj2 🔍 Reading data for package "proj2" from apps/proj2/package.json
proj2 📄 Resolved the current version as 0.2.0 from git tag "proj2@v0.2.0".
proj2 📄 Using the provided version specifier "prerelease".
proj2 ✍️  New version 0.2.1-rc.0 written to apps/proj2/package.json

 NX   Running release version for project: proj1

proj1 🔍 Reading data for package "proj1" from apps/proj1/package.json
proj1 📄 Resolved the current version as 0.1.2 from git tag "proj1@v0.1.2".
proj1 📄 Using the provided version specifier "prerelease".
proj1 ✍️  New version 0.1.3-rc.0 written to apps/proj1/package.json

UPDATE apps/proj2/package.json [dry-run]

    "private": true,
-   "version": "0.2.0"
+   "version": "0.2.1-rc.0"
  }

UPDATE apps/proj1/package.json [dry-run]

    "private": true,
-   "version": "0.1.2"
+   "version": "0.1.3-rc.0"
  }

# Release output

 nx release version --verbose --dry-run

 NX   Running release version for project: proj2

proj2 🔍 Reading data for package "proj2" from apps/proj2/package.json
proj2 📄 Resolved the current version as 0.2.0 from git tag "proj2@v0.2.0".
proj2 📄 Resolved the specifier as "major" using git history and the conventional commits standard.
proj2 ✍️  New version 1.0.0 written to apps/proj2/package.json

 NX   Running release version for project: proj1

proj1 🔍 Reading data for package "proj1" from apps/proj1/package.json
proj1 📄 Resolved the current version as 0.1.2 from git tag "proj1@v0.1.2".
proj1 🚫 No changes were detected using git history and the conventional commits standard.
proj1 🚫 Skipping versioning "proj1" as no changes were detected.

UPDATE apps/proj2/package.json [dry-run]

    "private": true,
-   "version": "0.2.0"
+   "version": "1.0.0"
  }






### Expected Behavior

For the first problem, when **--preid** is introduced as a command, it should assign `specifier` itself.
For the second problem, I do not except that both `package.json` to be updated.
For the last one, if the the latest tag was `proj2-v0.1.0`, and breaking change commit introduced to code base even if **prerelease** versioning enabled, I excepted to be version `proj2-v1.0.0-rc.0`

### GitHub Repo

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### Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a project with two **independent** package.
2. Add the configuration to `nx.json`
```bash
  "release": {
    "projects": [
      "apps/*"
    ],
    "projectsRelationship": "independent",
    "releaseTagPattern": "{projectName}@v{version}",
    "conventionalCommits": {
      "types": {
        "deps": {
          "semverBump": "patch"
        },
        "revert": {
          "semverBump": "patch"
        }
      }
    },
    "changelog": {
      "projectChangelogs": false,
      "workspaceChangelog": false
    },
    "version": {
      "conventionalCommits": true,
      "git": {
        "tag": true,
        "commit": true,
        "stageChanges": true
      }
    }
  },

3. Create an initial versioning by running: nx release version --first-release
4. Create a new commit & to check preid work on itself(for the first problem mentioned) run, nx release version --preid="rc"
5. Create a new commit & run nx release version --preid="rc" --specifier=prerelease
6. Create a new commit contains breaking change & run nx release version --preid="rc" --specifier=prerelease

Nx Report

NX   Report complete - copy this into the issue template

Node   : 21.7.3
OS     : darwin-arm64
pnpm   : 9.0.4

nx (global)    : 19.0.1
nx             : 19.0.0
@nx/js         : 19.0.0
@nx/workspace  : 19.0.0
@nrwl/tao      : 19.0.1
---------------------------------------
The following packages should match the installed version of nx
  - @nrwl/tao@19.0.1

To fix this, run `nx migrate nx@19.0.1`

Failure Logs

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Package Manager Version

pnpm --version 9.0.4

Operating System

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Additional Information

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[kaankoken]

any update @JamesHenry @FrozenPandaz ?

[kaankoken]

@AgentEnder any updates?