I think what will come out of this is that the notion of a semantic version will be part of the vdb name

Add support for semantic versioning of VDBs ------------------------------------------- Key: TEIID-3462 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-3462 Project: Teiid Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Server Affects Versions: 8.7 Reporter: Marc Shirley Assignee: Steven Hawkins Fix For: 9.0 Semantic versioning [1] should be supported in the VDB versioning in order to be able to easier determine whether there are breaking changes from the client perspective and to more easily establish a link between client software versions and the VDBs they rely upon. [1] http://semver.org/