Flot has historically used a major.minor versioning scheme, with the last stable version being 0.7. With the next release we will adopt the popular Semantic Versioning specification. This change will have several benefits:

• We’ll be able to produce patch-level releases to address bugs outside of the major release schedule.

• Many package managers and other tools already require semantic versioning, so this will improve compatibility, at least avoiding having to track a separate version number in manifest files.

• Semantic versioning provides a clear indication of API stability between releases, so you’ll know when to expect breaking changes.

If you have any scripts or package management tools that expect a version in the old format, please be prepared to update them.

Our next release will be tagged and labeled as 0.8.0-beta.