io.js does follow semver, that's why it's at 3.x, because certain changes required the major version bump. Node v4 will be the first Node to follow semver. I

io.js does follow semver, that's why it's at 3.x, because certain changes required the major version bump. Node v4 will be the first Node to follow semver. I get that you don't like Chrome style versioning, but that's not what's going on with Node.