That's what "calendar based versioning" means. It refers to the year of 
release. See https://calver.org

On July 22, 2018 11:07:58 PM UTC, Bill Deegan <b...@baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
>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 <p.f.mo...@gmail.com>
>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 <pradyu...@gmail.com> 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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