Mend Version Release Format
At Mend we have adopted the Calendar Versioning (CalVer) approach.
This allows a continuous delivery model in which new updates are being shipped quickly - every two weeks - to our SAAS deployments.
In order to keep the Mend products aligned, this approach was adopted for most of them.
As to breaking changes and backward compatibility, we are communicating planned changes beforehand to give our customers the ability to adjust and prepare accordingly, in addition to including them in the release notes.