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 ## Versioning
 
+The MongoDB Java, Kotlin and Scala drivers follow [semantic versioning](https://semver.org/) for their releases.
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 Major increments (such as 4.x -> 5.x) will occur when breaking changes are being made to the public API.  All methods and
 classes removed in a major release will have been deprecated in a prior release of the previous major release branch, and/or otherwise
 called out in the release notes.