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Version inflation is a real thing. Emacs brought high version numbers into the mainstream, and now Nvidia drivers and browsers are at the forefront of the movement.

Latest Ubuntu is 2021.10 :-).

If instead we consider actual releases, there are a few open source projects that are still in 0.xxx but for which each point release could be considered a an actual release. A sibling comment mentioned ClamAV, but there is also MAME (currently ad 0.240).

> there are a few open source projects that are still in 0.xxx but for which each point release could be considered a an actual release.

This is called ZeroVer: https://0ver.org/ (most recent HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28154187).

I love clamAV version right now 0.104.2. But I remember see 0.96.19 few seconds after a corporet backed project two year old go to version 3.0