semver

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A form of semantic versioning — 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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Meanings

semver1

nounsemver (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of SemVer.

SemVer2

nounSemVer (uncountable)

alternative semver

  1. abbreviationuncountablecomputingAbbreviation of semantic versioning.

    The Semantic Versioning (hereafter SemVer) specification, created by Tom Preston-Werner, is an attempt to specify rigorously and technically what version numbers (or, more precisely, what changes in version numbers) actually mean.

    2022, Mark Vareschi, Heather Wacha, editors, Intermediate Horizons: Book History and Digital Humanities, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 154

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Also see
semantic versioning
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