This is pretty typical for most open source projects. The major version will rarely get bumped unless the devs feel that it is a significant update (or they hav

This is pretty typical for most open source projects. The major version will rarely get bumped unless the devs feel that it is a significant update (or they have some predefined meaning of bumping a major version, like breaking APIs). See for example binutils and ld (2.27) https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/ https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/ Or rust (which is at version 1.11) or idris (0.12) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idris_(programming_language)