Actually I didn't. Perhaps the 1.1.x branch is for legacy clients and only gets the occasional crucial backport, where the 1.2.x branch is the active you-should

Actually I didn't. Perhaps the 1.1.x branch is for legacy clients and only gets the occasional crucial backport, where the 1.2.x branch is the active you-should-use-this-one-for-new-stuff version, and sees frequent feature releases. It is the very treatment of semver as being equivalent to a monotonically increasing decimal that I object to.