Support windows for protoc and the various languages are covered in the tables later in this topic. Version numbers throughout this topic use SemVer conventions; in the version “3.21.7,” we say that “3” is the major version, “21” is the minor version, and “7” is the micro or patch number. Starting with the v20.x protoc release, we changed our versioning scheme to enable nimbler updates to language-specific parts of Protocol Buffers.
