Answer by KCD for What are differences between AssemblyVersion, AssemblyFileVersion and AssemblyInformationalVersion?

To keep this question current it is worth highlighting that AssemblyInformationalVersion is used by NuGet and reflects the package version including any pre-release suffix.

For example an AssemblyVersion of 1.0.3.* packaged with the asp.net core dotnet-cli

dotnet pack --version-suffix ci-7 src/MyProject

Produces a package with version 1.0.3-ci-7 which you can inspect with reflection using:

CustomAttributeExtensions.GetCustomAttribute<AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute>(asm);