• cbarrick@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The meaning of version numbers can vary across projects.

    One common scheme is Semantic Versioning, which divides the version number into three parts: MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH*

    • MAJOR is incremented when there are backwards incompatible changes.
    • MINOR is incremented when new features are added in a backwards compatible way.
    • PATCH is incremented for smaller big fixes.
    • Each number is reset to zero when a higher level number is incremented.

    * It’s a bit more complex than this, but this is the gist.