Something good coming out of AI, it seems.
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As others have mentioned, 5.0 and 6.0 and 7.0 are really just version bumps the same as any other with no extra meaning beyond "we got tired of being stuck on 2.6 for 8 years and decided we're not doing that anymore".
It's not using semantic versioning and hasn't since 2011... Realistically, it hasn't since 2003 seeing as they spent 8 years without any single release being "big enough" to bump even the minor version number, let alone the major. Honestly, if they were still using that criteria from the pre-3.0 era, we'd probably be on something like 2.6.100 right now
Yes, well, thanks for telling me again. For the 5th time.