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semantic versioning

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.10 in modern English

Syllables
se-man-tic ver-sion-ing
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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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What does semantic versioning mean?
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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