No, this has nothing to do with Google's rapid release cycle or versioning scheme. As stated in the article, the API is stable so, it makes sense to switch to a

No, this has nothing to do with Google's rapid release cycle or versioning scheme. As stated in the article, the API is stable so, it makes sense to switch to a semver scheme.[1] From an engineering perspective, this is a system that makes perfect sense for all libraries to adopt. They choice 15 as the starting MAJOR version because people already referred to 0.14.x as "React 14", avoiding any possible naming confusion. They will remain at 15 as long as there are no major features or API breaking changes introduced. [1] http://semver.org/ http://semver.org/