Semantic versioning

Notes

• The key idea in semver is awareness. When I’m bumping versions of a bunch of libraries, I want to know which version bumps are most likely to cause breakage.
• Traditional versioning numbers give you the ability to tick the major number when something important happens, which is a really important communication tool.

Links

• Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 (Code)
• Semver trick - How to avoid complicated coordinated upgrades. (HN)
• Compatible Versioning
• The Semantics of Semantic Versioning? (2020) (Lobsters)
• VersioningRight - Rabbit hole of research on version numbering.
• beachball - Sunniest Semantic Version Bumper. Run all your npm scripts in topological order incrementally with cloud cache. (Web)
• Semantic Versioning Will Not Save You (2021) (Lobsters) (HN)
• svu - Semantic Version Util.
• Semver doesn't mean major.minor.patch, it means fails.features.bugs (HN)
• Calendar Versioning — CalVer - Versioning convention based on your project's release calendar, instead of arbitrary numbers. (Article) (Code)
• ZeroVer: 0-Based Versioning (HN) (Code)
• node-semver - Semver parser for node (the one npm uses).
• Setting a Semantic Versioning Budget (2021)
• Breaking Bad? Semantic Versioning and Impact of Breaking Changes in Maven Central (2021) (Tweet)
• semver-explain - Explain semver requirements by converting them into less than, greater than, and/or equal to form.
• Why semver is broken - Rich Hickey (2016)
• Versio - Version number manager.
• Sometimes I regret using CalVer (2023) (Lobsters)

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