diff --git a/entries/0verview.md b/entries/0verview.md index 6a1e865..60062f3 100644 --- a/entries/0verview.md +++ b/entries/0verview.md @@ -63,17 +63,20 @@ zeroes. [HashiCorp's Vault][vault] project aims to be an enterprise secret management service, comprising the bedrock of a modern, -microservice-oriented environment. And that's what makes it one of -ZeroVer's most important adherents. +microservice-oriented environment. And that's what made it one of +ZeroVer's most important adherents until +[2018](https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/releases/tag/v1.0.0). -> *Low in the stack, low in the version. That's the HashiCorp way.* +> *Low in the stack, low in the version. That was the HashiCorp way.* To drive the point home, even further down the stack, HashiCorp's -[Terraform][terraform] also complies with ZeroVer's cutting-edge -versioning scheme. With Vault and Terraform, HashiCorp demonstrates -industry recognition of the importance of ZeroVer in infrastructure. +[Terraform][terraform] also complied with ZeroVer's cutting-edge +versioning scheme until +[2021](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/releases/tag/v1.0.0). +With Vault and Terraform, HashiCorp demonstrated industry recognition +of the importance of ZeroVer in infrastructure. HashiCorp knows ZeroVer works, especially when the projects are business-critical products, sold and supported. @@ -81,6 +84,21 @@ business-critical products, sold and supported. [vault]: https://www.vaultproject.io/ [terraform]: https://www.terraform.io/ +## PuTTY + +For decades, PuTTY has been the go-to tool for professional Windows users +creating SSH connections. PuTTY was first released in 1999 by Simon Tatham +and has resisted the taboo of nonzero major versions for over 25 years. +PuTTY's journey has been nothing short of legendary. + +Much like the tool itself, PuTTY's versioning approach is efficient, +lightweight, robust, and focused on functionality rather than marketing optics +like major releases. Even as the SSH protocol itself revved from version 1 to 2, +PuTTY remained steadfast under the reassuring banner of 0.x. + +PuTTY's commitment to ZeroVer reminds us that great software doesn't need major +version numbers to make a major impact. + ## TOML Versioning schemes like [SemVer][semver] and [CalVer][calver] attempt