Semantic Versioning is used in .NET Core to provide descriptions of the type and and degree of change that occur in a version of .NET Core. Semantic Versioning (SemVer) uses the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH versioning pattern:
MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH[-PRERELEASE-BUILDNUMBER]
The PRERELEASE and BUILDNUMBER parts of SemVer are optional and not part of supported releases. They are used specifically for nightly builds, local builds from source targets, and unsupported preview releases.
The MAJOR part of the versioning is incremented when an old version is not being supported anymore, there is an adoption of a newer MAJOR version of an existing dependency, or the setting of a compatibility quirk is toggled off. MINOR is incremented whenever ...
