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Ruby broke applications and it wasn't even major version release I think it was 1.8 to 1.9. Tcl 8.3 to 8.4 when they added unicode support as well. I believe

• dragonwriter 7y ago
  > Ruby broke applications and it wasn't even major version release I think it was 1.8 to 1.9. It was a major version release; Ruby, through 1.8, used an version numbering scheme similar to the old Linux version numbering scheme; odd second digits were development major versions, even second digits were stable major versions. 1.9 was a slight break because it was a major release but, IIRC, seen as stable.