Hacker News with Generative AI: Versioning

The semver trick (2019) (github.com/dtolnay)
The semver trick refers to publishing a breaking change to a Rust library without requiring a coordinated upgrade across its downstream dependency graph.
Rust, Software Development, Versioning, Dependency Management
109 points by jcbhmr 23 days ago | 47 comments
PEP 2026 – Calendar versioning for Python (python.org)
This PEP proposes updating the versioning scheme for Python to include the calendar year.
Python, Versioning, Software, Programming Languages
20 points by BerislavLopac 74 days ago | 10 comments
Eighteen Years of ABI Stability (haxx.se)
Exactly eighteen years ago today, on October 30 2006, we shipped curl 7.16.0 that among a whole slew of new features and set of bugfixes bumped the libcurl SONAME number from 3 to 4.
Software, Versioning, History, Curl
166 points by TangerineDream 80 days ago | 64 comments
Do Not Upgrade to Any Version of MySQL After 8.0.37 (percona.com)
MySQL, Database, Security, Software, Versioning
13 points by tanelpoder 191 days ago | 8 comments