Semantic Versioning Caret

This was renamed to Semantic Versioning Tilde.

An extension of Semantic Versioning for initial developments.

Specification

1. Semantic Versioning Caret (SemVer^) conforms to Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 except for the following clauses.

2. If X (major version) is 0, versioning is initial-development-mode.

3. In initial-development-mode, a normal version number MUST take the form 0.X′.Y′ where X′, Y′ are non-negative integers, and MUST NOT contain leading zeroes. X′ is the initial-major version, and Y′ is the initial-minor version.

4. Initial-minor version Y′ MUST be incremented if newly backwards compatible functionality is introduced to the public API and/or backwards compatible bug fixes are introduced.

5. Initial-major version X′ MUST be incremented if any backwards incompatible changes are introduced to the public API. It MAY include initial-minor level changes. Initial-minor version MUST be reset to 0 when initial-major version is incremented.

Author

mosop

License

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

And Semantic Version Caret derives Semantic Versioning 2.0.0, licensed by Tom Preston-Werner under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.