ease versions, and use other tags for unstable
versions such as prereleases.</p>
<p>The <code>next</code> tag is used by some projects to identify the upcoming version.</p>
<p>Other than <code>latest</code>, no tag has any special significance to npm itself.</p>
<h3 id="caveats">Caveats</h3>
<p>This command used to be known as <code>npm tag</code>, which only created new tags,
and so had a different syntax.</p>
<p>Tags must share a namespace with version numbers, because they are
specified in the same slot: