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by atom_enger 3278 days ago
How did Docker jump from 1.x to 17 so quickly? Anybody have a link to this and the reasoning? Is it similar to what Elastic did w/ their jump from 2.x to 5.x?
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Docker recently switched to a date based versioning system. So 17.06 is the docker released in June 2017
Docker introduced a new versioning scheme when they announced Docker Community Edition and Docker Enterprise Edition

> For consistency, we are also renaming the free Docker products to Docker Community Edition (CE) and adopting a new lifecycle and time-based versioning scheme for both Docker EE and CE. Today’s Docker CE and EE 17.03 release is the first to use the new scheme.

https://blog.docker.com/2017/03/docker-enterprise-edition/

It's the year, like Ubuntu.
More specifically docker switched to semver versionning.

https://github.com/moby/moby/releases/tag/v17.03.0-ce