Does the rule about versioning still hold? Are they still blowing smoke in everyone's eye and keeping their security audit's results by incrementing a sub-patch

Does the rule about versioning still hold? Are they still blowing smoke in everyone's eye and keeping their security audit's results by incrementing a sub-patch letter in their version number, even though they make major breaking changes between each release? The other day my cluster went down because the rules for "self-signed certificates" changed between releases, and a certificate signed by a different CA with a similar Common Name was now rejected as "self-signed" by the client library. What's the point of suffering a naming scheme this silly if we can expect major breakage between each release anyway?