[simonw]

So you got the API wrong - because you didn't have omniscience about every possible problem your code would need to solve in the future.

There's no shame in admitting that with a major version bump. None of us are infallible.

[rgoulter]

This makes me wonder what the largest MAJOR in MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH exists in the wild.

[Seb-C]

The largest I'm aware of is the nvidia driver, version 471.