The improvements look great. At the same time I wonder if it is possible to keep using MCP 1.x as well for now. Development is expensive, right? It also looks possible to transition to MCP 2.x by tackling the different improvements one at a time as long as we take stateless core first?
I just realized that MCP releases do not use semver. It says this is a 2026-07-28 version which is quite unusual and can be quite hard to keep track of, especially when backwards compatibility is of concerns.
You are right, in my mind the 2026-07-28 version was MCP 2.0 but the article never mentions that. I do remember having read about MCP 2.0 elsewhere. Regardless, we cannot expect this to be the last impactful change and to me it makes sense to indeed semantically version.
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The improvements look great. At the same time I wonder if it is possible to keep using MCP 1.x as well for now. Development is expensive, right? It also looks possible to transition to MCP 2.x by tackling the different improvements one at a time as long as we take stateless core first?
I just realized that MCP releases do not use semver. It says this is a 2026-07-28 version which is quite unusual and can be quite hard to keep track of, especially when backwards compatibility is of concerns.
There is a one-year-old open GitHub issue asking to use semver instead: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol...
You are right, in my mind the 2026-07-28 version was MCP 2.0 but the article never mentions that. I do remember having read about MCP 2.0 elsewhere. Regardless, we cannot expect this to be the last impactful change and to me it makes sense to indeed semantically version.