# What to do about defacto stability before 1.0

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-to-do-about-defacto-stability-before-1-0/85581>\
**Category:** Community\
**Created:** [August 10, 2022, 12:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-to-do-about-defacto-stability-before-1-0/85581 "2022-08-10T12:23:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![cjdoris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cjdoris/32/213133_2.png) [@cjdoris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cjdoris)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 7:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-to-do-about-defacto-stability-before-1-0/85581/21 "2023-02-26T19:44:25Z")

</div>

In particular see [6. Compatibility · Pkg.jl](https://pkgdocs.julialang.org/v1/compatibility/#compat-pre-1.0)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Eben60](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/eben60/32/13475_2.png) [@Eben60](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Eben60)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 7:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-to-do-about-defacto-stability-before-1-0/85581/22 "2023-02-26T19:48:17Z")

</div>

According to [https://semver.org/](https://semver.org/) ,

> - MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards compatible manner
> - PATCH version when you make backwards compatible bug fixes

and it appears no exceptions were made from this rule for pre-1.0 releases

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![odow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/odow/32/28685_2.png) [@odow](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/odow)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-to-do-about-defacto-stability-before-1-0/85581/23 "2023-02-26T20:06:04Z")

</div>

> and it appears no exceptions were made from this rule for pre-1.0 releases

See [Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 | Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/#spec-item-4)

In pre-1.0, Julia packages have standardized on something a little more strict than “anything may change at any time”: bump MINOR for breaking changes and PATCH for all else.

[Previous page](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-to-do-about-defacto-stability-before-1-0/85581.md?page=1)