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Version scheme
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-Minetest doesn't follow semver. Instead, we do something roughly similar to 0.major.minor.
+Minetest partially follows semver (major.minor.patch).
-Since 0.5.0-dev and 0.4.17-dev, the dev notation refers to the next release,
-ie: 0.5.0-dev is the development version leading to 0.5.0.
+Since 5.0.0-dev and 0.4.17-dev, the dev notation refers to the next release,
+ie: 5.0.0-dev is the development version leading to 5.0.0.
Prior to that, we used oldversion-dev.
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+Semver was adopted after 0.4.X series. Before that we used 0.major.minor scheme.