A new major version of Electron is in the works, and with it some changes to our versioning strategy. As of version 2.0.0, Electron will strictly adhere to Semantic Versioning.
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This change means you'll see the major version bump more often, and it will usually be a major update to Chromium. Patch releases will also be more stable, as they will now only contain bug fixes with no new features.
**Major Version Increments**
* Chromium version updates
* Node.js major version updates
* Electron breaking API changes
**Minor Version Increments**
* Node.js minor version updates
* Electron non-breaking API changes
**Patch Version Increments**
* Node.js patch version updates
* fix-related chromium patches
* Electron bug fixes
Because Electron's semver ranges will now be more meaningful, we recommend
installing Electron using npm's default `--save-dev` flag, which will prefix
your version with `^`, keeping you safely up to date with minor and patch
updates:
```sh
npm install --save-dev electron
```
For developers interested only in bug fixes, you should use the tilde semver prefix e.g. `~2.0.0`, which which will never introduce new features, only fixes to improve stability.
For more details, see [electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/electron-versioning](https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/electron-versioning).
