Re: pip 18.0 has been released!

I noticed the version number jumped from 10.0.1 -> 18.0
Is there a reason for such?
Change in version numbering policy which I missed reading?

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 4:07 AM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yay! Congratulations on the release, and thanks for all the work you
> put into it.
>
> Paul
>
> On 22 July 2018 at 11:51, Pradyun Gedam <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On behalf of the PyPA, I am pleased to announce that pip 18.0 has just
> > been released.
> >
> > To install pip 18.0, you can run
> >
> >     python -m pip install --upgrade pip
> >
> > or use get-pip as described in https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/installing.
> > Note that if you are using a version of pip supplied by your
> > distribution vendor, vendor-supplied upgrades will be available in due
> > course (or you can use pip 18 in a virtual environment).
> >
> > This is the first pip release since adopting 3 month release cadence and
> > a Calendar based versioning scheme (also known as CalVer). In simpler
> > words, there will be a new pip release every 3 months unless there are
> > no changes since the previous release. More details such as release
> > months can be found in pip's development documentation.
> >
> > The highlights of this release are:
> >
> > - Python 3.3 is no longer supported - if you need pip on Python 3.3,
> >   you should stay on pip 10, which is the last version to support Python
> >   3.3.
> > - Complete PEP 518 support - includes support for installation of build
> >   dependencies from source and Unicode support on Python 2 and Windows
> > - New --prefer-binary flag, to prefer older wheels over newer sdists
> > - Many bug fixes and minor improvements
> >
> > Thanks to everyone who put so much effort into the new release. Many of
> > the contributions came from community members, whether in the form of
> > code, participation in design discussions and/or bug reports. The pip
> > development team is extremely grateful to everyone in the community for
> > their contributions.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Pradyun
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