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by conradludgate 1082 days ago
It depends on the library. I personally like the minor vs patch distinction. If I see a patch version I might update immediately because I don't want a known bug in my application, but if I see a new minor feature version I might wait a bit
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diarrhea 1082 days ago
Same, but note a minor version encompasses all patches since the last release as well. You could have a single feature and countless bug fixes, but it will only show up as a meagre minor bump, with a suspicious zero in the patch field.
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kzrdude 1082 days ago
In theory the patch verison should be painless and always a given upgrade. The minor version might have at least the same number of important bug fixes, it's just coming with a different cost of having larger changes as well.

Some fixes only come with larger changes. Like the recently posted rust regex 1.9 release. Only a rewrite of the library fixed some long-standing issues.

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