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<MAJOR> — mirrors SemVer’s MAJOR component; incremented for breaking-change releases or whenever the DATE segment would otherwise need to contract.

<DATE> — expressed as YYYY, YYYYMM, or YYYYMMDD in UTC; it may stay the same width or expand (year → month → day) as release cadence accelerates, and it resets to its initial width when the next MAJOR version begins.

<PATCH> — mirrors SemVer’s PATCH component; a monotonically increasing counter for backward-compatible updates released within the same DATE window.

ScalVer provides the time-based clarity of CalVer (knowing when something was released) while needing the compatibility guarantees and tooling support of SemVer (knowing if an update breaks things).

Adjustable cadence : ScalVer allows projects to adjust their release frequency (yearly, monthly, daily) and reflect this in the versioning without breaking the logical version order.

SemVer Compatibility: every ScalVer tag is syntactically valid SemVer, so existing tooling (CI/CD, package managers, release dashboards) works unchanged.

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