semantic versioning

noun

semantic versioning

noun
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences, Software A versioning scheme where each release is given a three-part version number of the form major.minor.patch. The major number is incremented to indicate a breaking change, minor for new non-breaking features, and patch for other non-breaking changes.

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