[openssl-project] A proposal for an updated OpenSSL version scheme (v2)

[Viktor Dukhovni]

> On Sep 21, 2018, at 11:16 AM, Viktor Dukhovni <openssl-users at dukhovni.org> wrote:
> 
> I'm afraid that's where you're simply wrong.  Ever since 1.0.0, OpenSSL
> has promised (and I think delivered) ABI stability for the *minor* version
> and feature stability (bug fixes only) for the patch letters.  Therefore,
> the semantic version number of "1.0.2a" is "1.0", its minor number is 2
> and its fix number is 1 ("a").
> 
> Now of course "1.0" is not a valid semantic version number, but fortunately,
> we've since released "1.1" and are now considering "1.2" which with semantic
> versioning, is ready to become simply "2" as the "1." prefix is not needed,
> and "2" is conveniently larger than the current "not-really major" leading "1".

To clarify, in the above I said "semantic version number" a few times where
I meant to say "semantic major version number"...

-- 
	Viktor.