Re:Is Semantic Versioning an Anti-Pattern?
by viraptor on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @11:35PM
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> As you said with SemVer, if the security upgrade is a significant change, then you can expect breakage in the library.
In practice that's very uncommon. If someone is actually doing security releases, then either they release a minimal change to supported versions, or the distributions do that for them. Actual security upgrades are normally single patches which take great care not to do any API or behaviour changes.
In practice that's very uncommon. If someone is actually doing security releases, then either they release a minimal change to supported versions, or the distributions do that for them. Actual security upgrades are normally single patches which take great care not to do any API or behaviour changes.