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(The only brief prior discussion I can find of this is 116325)

I find it generally useful (or at least interesting) to be able to tell if something was changed in a major version or a minor version. This has, historically, been pretty easy to tell: if it ends in .0 (0.15.0, 0.12.0, 1.0.0) it's a major version; otherwise, it's minor. 2.0 breaks this pattern, as the initial release was 2.0.7. Now, I know this, but it's harder to tell at a glance and someone new to the game (or who does not follow the forum/changelogs as closely) may not know that.

I don't really have a suggestion here, because none of the alternatives I can think of are really an improvement:

- Display as 2.0.0: does not match the official changelog and is not a publicly released version.

- Display as 2.0 (i.e. remove the last digit for major versions): makes it less clear that this is referring to a specific version, and is a lot of work to change.

But maybe someone else has thoughts or ideas.

Leaving it as-is is the only sensible thing: 2.0.7 was the first Publicly Released Version in the “2.0” series of releases.

There were apparently some 2.0.1-ish Builds available to Reviewers in the weeks before official Release, but the intermediate Changelogs seem to have been condensed for the sake of Simplicity. Some software projects would have called the Internal Builds “1.99” or “2.0.Beta” or something else; that is simply not what Wube did.