fix: "prerelease" versioning strategy

[b0lle]

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Fixes ##2515 🦕

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[matthias-busch]

This is actually a bugfix I need as well!

[KingBain]

@chingor13 would like to see this get merged.

[b0lle]

@chingor13 would like to see this get merged.

[b0lle]

@ferrarimarco do you think you could review this?

[ferrarimarco]

Thanks for this PR.

A few small things to check.

[ferrarimarco]

@b0lle Thanks for addressing comments. Can you please have a look at linting errors, so we can go ahead with this PR? thanks!

[b0lle]

@ferrarimarco I solved the linting issue, can you trigger the gh-checks please?