Anki 2.1.55 Beta 1-2

[kleinerpirat]

New Anki beta and versioning

Anki has a long history of not-so-great version numbers. Semver is a bit of a tricky subject. From the perspective of add-ons, it’s a breaking API change, and you could argue that should make it 3.0. But that’s not really practical - because add-ons are so tightly coupled, we’d end up bumping the major version every few releases that way. So I mainly focus on what’s exposed to end users outside of add-ons. This update doesn’t change how cards are stored on disk, or require a dow…

@kleinerpirat

I hope you understand that the add-on situation is just as - if not more - frustrating from the developer side.

@r.j.appleton

I understand re the position of add-on authors re version changes, and that the situation can be difficult for them as well.

I actually meant the Anki devs here, but yeah, it’s frustrating for add-on devs too. Frustrating for everyone.