Improve get latest compatible version to search for major.minor.*x* versions (#3052)

* Improve get latest compatible version to search for major.minor.*any* versions * Update submodule

Author: rosen-vladimirov

lib/common

@@ -20,15 +20,23 @@ export class NpmInstallationManager implements INpmInstallationManager {
 }
 
 public async getLatestCompatibleVersion(packageName: string): Promise<string> {
+const configVersion = this.$staticConfig.version;
+const isPreReleaseVersion = semver.prerelease(configVersion) !== null;
+let cliVersionRange = `~${semver.major(configVersion)}.${semver.minor(configVersion)}.0`;
+if (isPreReleaseVersion) {
+// if the user has some 0-19 pre-release version, include pre-release versions in the search query.
+cliVersionRange = `~${configVersion}`;
+}
 
-let cliVersionRange = `~${this.$staticConfig.version}`;
-let latestVersion = await this.getLatestVersion(packageName);
+const latestVersion = await this.getLatestVersion(packageName);
 if (semver.satisfies(latestVersion, cliVersionRange)) {
 return latestVersion;
 }
-let data = await this.$npm.view(packageName, { "versions": true });
 
-return semver.maxSatisfying(data, cliVersionRange) || latestVersion;
+const data = await this.$npm.view(packageName, { "versions": true });
+
+const maxSatisfying = semver.maxSatisfying(data, cliVersionRange);
+return maxSatisfying || latestVersion;
 }
 
 public async install(packageName: string, projectDir: string, opts?: INpmInstallOptions): Promise<any> {

lib/npm-installation-manager.ts

@@ -146,6 +146,12 @@ describe("Npm installation manager tests", () => {
 packageLatestVersion: "1.4.0",
 cliVersion: "1.6.0-2016-10-01-182",
 expectedResult: "1.4.0"
+},
+"When CLI Version has patch version larger than an existing package, should return max compliant package from the same major.minor version": {
+versions: ["1.0.0", "1.0.1", "1.4.0", "2.5.0", "2.5.1", "2.5.2", "3.0.0"],
+packageLatestVersion: "3.0.0",
+cliVersion: "2.5.4",
+expectedResult: "2.5.2"
 }
 };