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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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.