The **device** module provides APIs for checking information about the current device.
> - The APIs of this module are no longer maintained since API version 6. It is recommended that you use [`@ohos.deviceInfo`](js-apis-device-info.md) instead.
> **NOTE**
> - The APIs of this module are no longer maintained since API version 6. It is recommended that you use [@ohos.deviceInfo](js-apis-device-info.md) instead.
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> - The initial APIs of this module are supported since API version 3. Newly added APIs will be marked with a superscript to indicate their earliest API version.
> - The initial APIs of this module are supported since API version 3. Newly added APIs will be marked with a superscript to indicate their earliest API version.
| releaseType<sup>4+</sup> | string | Release type. The value includes both the release type and the API version, for example, Beta1.<br>Available release types are as follows:<br>- **Canary**: For the same API version, different canary releases are compatible with each other, but not compatible with those of the **beta** and **release** type.<br>- **Beta**: For the same API version, different beta releases are compatible with each other, but not compatible with those of the **release** type.<br>- **Release**: Releases of this type are compatible with the latest five API versions.|