It definitely matters. [LWN.net]

It definitely matters.

Posted Apr 4, 2008 15:47 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582)
In reply to: It definitely matters. by beoba
Parent article: OpenSSH 5.0 released

Another example: OpenSSH 1.x -> OpenSSH 2.x.  Of course, they were following the lead of
commercial SSH in this.

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It definitely matters.

Posted Apr 5, 2008 7:37 UTC (Sat) by djm (subscriber, #11651) [Link]

Cranking the major version mattered back when we were making major functional improvements or
incompatible change. OpenSSH 2.0 brought in SSH protocol version 2 support for the first time.
OpenSSH 3.0 changed some defaults in a way that could affect some users.

Nowadays OpenSSH is a mature product, so we just increment the version when we do a timed
(~every 6 months) release.

It definitely matters.

Posted Apr 6, 2008 22:13 UTC (Sun) by smoogen (subscriber, #97) [Link]

Thankyou for the multiple explanations djm.