Issue #3487150 by alexpott, oily, ptmkenny: \Drupal::VERSION on 11.x not correct

core/lib/Drupal.php

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ class Drupal {
   /**
    * The current system version.
    */
-  const VERSION = '11.0-dev';
+  const VERSION = '11.2-dev';
 
   /**
    * Core API compatibility.

core/tests/Drupal/BuildTests/Composer/Template/ComposerProjectTemplatesTest.php

@@ -424,6 +424,11 @@ protected function makeVendorPackage($repository_path): void {
    */
   protected function getCoreStability() {
     $version = \Drupal::VERSION;
+    // If the current version is x.y-dev then this is the equivalent of the main
+    // branch and should be treated as a dev release.
+    if (preg_match('/^(\d)+\.(\d)+-dev$/', $version)) {
+      return 'dev';
+    }
     $stability = VersionParser::parseStability($version);
     if ($stability === 'dev') {
       // Strip off "-dev";