Curious to know how element versioning is done

[ambadyanands]

According to Semantic Versioning Specification (semver) minor version must be incremented if new, backward compatible functionality is introduced. But most of the time I see new features being added in patch versions instead (See latest element-web release for example).

Is there any reason for having so many patch releases instead of bumping the minor version? In other words, how is it decided when a minor version should be released?

[ambadyanands]

Okay, so I just found the following documented in the release.md file here:

Element Web & Element Desktop do not follow semver and always have matching version numbers. The patch version number is normally incremented for every release.

Still curious to know how it's decided when to bump the minor version. :)