The PHP 7 Revolution: Return Types and Removed Artifacts

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@tony_marston404

Then your understanding of the release numbering system is flawed. Going from 5.3.x to 5.4.x is a major release. Going from 5.3.x to 5.3.y is a minor release.

No, fairly certain you are wrong on that.

Major.Minor.Release.Build

Many drop the .Build purely because that is only useful to developers, which leaves Major.Minor.Release

5.3 is a minor release of the PHP 5 language. So is 5.4. Then you have 5.4.1 which likely have hotfixes found in 5.4.0 (or prior minor/release versions, such as 5.3.4).