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title: "Discussion on \"Below 1.0, the minor number is the breaking one\" | Hashnode"
description: "Discussion on \"Below 1.0, the minor number is the breaking one\". Cargo and npm treat ^0.3.4 as any 0.3.y. Ship a breaking change as 0.3.5 and it lands in everyone's next build unasked. So we wrote the rule down."
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# [Below 1.0, the minor number is the breaking one](https://blog.narcolepticfox.com/zero-point-releases?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

Cargo and npm treat ^0.3.4 as any 0.3.y. Ship a breaking change as 0.3.5 and it lands in everyone's next build unasked. So we wrote the rule down.

Oct 20 · 4 min read · blog.narcolepticfox.com  
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Founder of Narcoleptic Fox. Marine veteran. Senior engineer learning AI/ML and writing about it. Building Mousing.ai, Reqforay,.ai, and foxstash.

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