Most software version numbers look like 1.6.11 — three numbers separated by dots. This isn't an arbitrary naming choice; it follows a widely adopted convention called Semantic Versioning, or SemVer. This article looks at why version numbers are split into three parts, and what it actually takes to implement that convention correctly in code. What MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH Each Mean SemVer formats a version as MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH (for example, 1.6.11 ), and each position carries a dist...