The 'Same Major' versioning is designed to handle the case where a version needs to treated as a "greater than or equal to" constraint. Specifically, the case where the version say, `X.Y.Z` signifies a range of compatibility from greater than or equal to `X.Y.Z` to less than `X+1`. This process uses Semver-Coerced versioning beneath the surface, single versions (e.g., `X.Y.Z`) are converted to a range like `X+1` and then passed to the corresponding semver-coerced method. This method is handy when managing dependencies like dotnet-sdk's rollForward settings. Let's say a project uses dotnet-sdk version `3.1.0`. It needs to be compatible with any version in the `3.x.x` range but _not_ with versions in the next major version, like `4.x.x`. For example: ```json {configType=none} { "sdk": { "version": "6.0.300", "rollForward": "major" } } ``` The roll-forward policy to use when selecting an SDK version, either as a fallback when a specific SDK version is missing or as a directive to use a higher version. In this case with `major` it means that select the latest version with the same major. ie. `>= 6.0.300 < 7.0.0` For such cases, the users would not want Renovate to create an update PR for any version within the range `>= 6.0.300 < 7.0.0` as it would not change the behaviour on their end, since it is handled by the manager already. Note: You should create a discussion before using this versioning as this is an experimental support and might have some edge cases unhandled.