Wouldn’t it be great if as a client you could look just at the version number of a service and know if you can integrate with it? Semantic versioning is a specification that allows just that. With semantic versioning, each version number is in the form MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. When the MAJOR number increments, it means that backward incompatible changes have been made. When MINOR increments, new functionality has been added that should be backward compatible. Finally, a change to PATCH states that bug fixes have been made to existing functionality.
Semantic versioning
