Semantic Versioning

Version software when publishing changes. Any modifications must be released as a new version. A good convention for versioning software is semver. A semantic version number consists of three components:

<MAJOR>.<MINOR>.<PATCH>

Increment the:

• <MAJOR> version when an incompatible API change is made.
• <MINOR> version when a backward compatible new functionality is added.
• <PATCH> version when a backward compatible bug fix is made.

When the <MINOR> version is incremented, the <PATCH> version should be reset to zero. Similarly, when the <MAJOR> version is incremented, both the <MINOR> and <PATCH> versions should be reset to zero.

The <MAJOR> version zero is usually assigned to software that has not yet been released for production use.