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Pride Versioning (infosec.pub)

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

In semantic versioning the first number is for any change to a public API that is not backward compatible. It could be incredibly small, like fixing a typo, but if it changes the API your users are using in an incompatible way, you’re supposed to bump that number.