No doubt, the version numbers from PHP to Node are weird.
Here's what happened: when we first came to Node back in 2012, Node itself was being very, very cautious about releasing a 1.0 version, something that didn't happen for quite some time after. So the culture was to be conservative with module version numbers, and we felt our first Node release shouldn't be 1.0 or 2.0... and we wound up releasing it as 0.4. Then the second major release on Node, which should if anything have been 3.0, as 0.5.
Then node version numbering got rational, we got serious about semantic versioning, and for our next major rewrite we went to 2.0. Still confusingly close to the old PHP 1.5 version number, but at least it's not a smaller number!
2.x is an LTS (Long Term Support) release, supported through 2023, so we've been iterating on it while maintaining bc. 3.x, which will finally break bc but also be an LTS for quite a while, will be released sometime in 2020.
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No doubt, the version numbers from PHP to Node are weird.
Here's what happened: when we first came to Node back in 2012, Node itself was being very, very cautious about releasing a 1.0 version, something that didn't happen for quite some time after. So the culture was to be conservative with module version numbers, and we felt our first Node release shouldn't be 1.0 or 2.0... and we wound up releasing it as 0.4. Then the second major release on Node, which should if anything have been 3.0, as 0.5.
Then node version numbering got rational, we got serious about semantic versioning, and for our next major rewrite we went to 2.0. Still confusingly close to the old PHP 1.5 version number, but at least it's not a smaller number!
2.x is an LTS (Long Term Support) release, supported through 2023, so we've been iterating on it while maintaining bc. 3.x, which will finally break bc but also be an LTS for quite a while, will be released sometime in 2020.