[jussij]

But is such a change worth a major version number increase?

[mulation]

Google Chrome Team started this kind of "bigger version" war, now Firefox/IE/Linux, they are all in it :-)

[GoodIntentions]

Nothing new. I remember Slackware 3.6 (?) jumping to version 8 in order to be closer to the other Distro's numbers. thought it was sorta stupid at the time.