Mozilla Thunderbird updated to 45.0

How long until people realise the insanity that is releasing a new major version every 8 weeks.

My non-technical friends & family are able to understand the difference between a major and minor version change. The car world sometimes has a similar concept (e.g. a Series 2 of a given specific model).

In most software, a major version means you can expect the features to stay largely the same, possibly with additions but not removal/major changes to functionality, minor version releases are usually fixing issues, subtly improving existing functionality or occasionally adding new features.

I just looked at the Chrome Release history on Wikipedia.

Some of major version changes are "change the taskbar logo design" "Auto-fill form letters are now highlighted in bold".

Other versions make major breaking changes, like disabling SSLv3, disabling NPAPI plugin support and removing showModalDialog.

I'm not saying those features should have stayed forever, my point is they're introducing major breaking changes in the same way they introduce a change of icon.