Title: plugin versioning
Last modified: July 16, 2021

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# plugin versioning

 *  Resolved [Sarankumar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sarankumar/)
 * (@sarankumar)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-versioning-2/)
 * if you can add [https://semver.org/](https://semver.org/) standard for versioning
   this plugin, it will help us.

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 *  Plugin Author [Jeff Starr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/specialk/)
 * (@specialk)
 * [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-versioning-2/#post-14667205)
 * I would if I could, but years ago went with date-based versioning. There is no
   way to switch to integer/decimal based versioning at this point. By changing 
   the version to say, 1.0, the plugin would fail to update for thousands of users.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-versioning-2/#post-14667205)
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