On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 10:05 AM, Marcel Jamin via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

Any particular reason bitcoin versioning doesn't follow the SemVer spec?

We do: a.b.c, the next major version is, 0.12.0, and maintenance releases are 0.12.1 etc. Release candidates are 0.12.0-rc1 for example.