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It's not exactly unusual to go to non-zero major versions that way, especially if it's been at 0.x for a while and people are thinking/talking about those versions. No confusion between 0.16 and 1.6 etc.

Seems fruitless as an approach to reducing confusion to me. What about versions 0.1.6, 0.6.1, 6.0.1, and 6.1.0?

I’d be more likely to think something was wrong with those releases, and assume someone was forced to delist versions 0.16.0 thru 1.5.0.

If I understood the semver spec correctly, you're allowed to do just that.

As long as you only increase ever number, and not go down, you're good.

I blame Java. In 2004 it went from version 1.4 to version 5.

What about Windows? Bit jumpy with their version numbers