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The last time I checked node it was 0.12.* . How did it become 6.* in a couple years time?


A bunch of folks unhappy with Joyent's progress on node forked it into io.js, they had an aggressive release schedule, and then when the 2 project reunited, they chose to use io.js's versioning. (io was at 3.3; the new unified release was 4.0)


It now uses semantic versioning: http://semver.org


They adopted a different versioning system.


They adopted the correct versioning system. The old one was rubbish.




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