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Major Version Numbers are Not Sacred

Tom Preston-Werner · 23 May 2022

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  1. If we want to live in a world where SemVer improves our collective experience as much as possible, it means we need to believe something new: Major version numbers are not sacred.
  2. I actually prefer more frequent major versions with smaller sets of breaking changes. There is a real danger in saving up all your significant changes and releasing them in one whopping major version once a year.

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