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I'm not familiar with Linux version numbers, so apologies if this is a stupid question. How often do version numbers increment that any portion would overflow 8 bits? None of the software I've ever worked on would even come close to it.

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Firefox is at major version 85. Many of these have “.1” or “.0.1” security update releases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history isn’t compete, even if you click through to individual pages, but it would hugely surprise me if there were less than 256.

Any product older than 25 years would need only 10 releases/security updates per year to get there.

Sorry if I wasn't clear - I didn't mean 8 bits for the whole number, just 8 bits for each part between decimal points. I can't imagine doing 256 iterations of something without deciding that you need to bump the next number up and start over at 0 or 1.

Rereading your remark, you were clear, just not clear enough for my sloppy reading/skimming (it should even have been clear from context alone)

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