1Versioning 2========== 3 4Since version 3.0.0, VIXL uses [Semantic Versioning 2.0.0][semver]. 5 6Briefly: 7 8- Backwards-incompatible changes update the _major_ version. 9- New features update the _minor_ version. 10- Bug fixes update the _patch_ version. 11 12Why 3.0.0? 13---------- 14 15VIXL was originally released as 1.x using snapshot releases. When we moved VIXL 16into Linaro, we started working directly on `master` and stopped tagging 17named releases. However, we informally called this "VIXL 2", so we are skipping 182.0.0 to avoid potential confusion. 19 20Using `master` 21-------------- 22 23Users who want to take the latest development version of VIXL can still take 24commits from `master`. Our day-to-day development process hasn't changed and 25these commits should still pass their own tests. However, note that commits not 26explicitly tagged with a given version should be considered to be unversioned, 27with no backwards-compatibility guarantees. 28 29[semver]: https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html 30 "Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 Specification" 31