From 084ff8918c25c9cccb5b9949aca911a36aa8286a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: codebien <2103732+codebien@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:04:19 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Alias consts.Version

---
 lib/consts/consts.go | 7 ++++++-
 version/version.go   | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 version/version.go

diff --git a/lib/consts/consts.go b/lib/consts/consts.go
index 0b8bc2413ca..554574f0bf2 100644
--- a/lib/consts/consts.go
+++ b/lib/consts/consts.go
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 // Package consts houses some constants needed across k6
 package consts
 
+import "go.k6.io/k6/version"
+
 // Version contains the current semantic version of k6.
-const Version = "0.56.0"
+//
+// Deprecated: alias to support the legacy versioning API. Use the new version package,
+// it will be removed as soon as the external services stop to depend on it.
+const Version = version.SemVer
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..44e9146ddee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/version/version.go
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+// Package version handles k6 versioning
+package version
+
+// SemVer contains the current version of k6
+// represented using Semantic Versioning expression.
+const SemVer = "0.56.0"