SemVer is a starting point. If it's a major release you can prepare yourself mentally for a lot of breaking changes. A point release... probably not In any cas

SemVer is a starting point. If it's a major release you can prepare yourself mentally for a lot of breaking changes. A point release... probably not In any case you need to read through the changelog or (absent that) the actual code diff and think about how you use the application. It's not 100%, but no versioning system will be able to identify how you use code and how you expect the semantics of an application to be.