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>Does this mean 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.1.0 and 3.1.1 will all be ABI/API compatible?

Just to clarify (given my assumption that semver apply): 3.1.0 might contain new features compared to 3.0.z, those won’t be backported, but code written/compiled against 3.0.0 will continue to work fine on 3.y.z

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> given my assumption that semver apply

Per the post, "we are not at this stage directly adopting semantic versioning," though from the sounds of it they're going to try to make the version numbers at least closer to what's expected of semver.

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