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-Renovate's Semantic Versioning is a strict/independent implementation of [Semantic Versioning 2.0](https://semver.org). It has been developed to be used in situations where exact-only SemVer support is needed and not npm's extended semver implementation including ranges.
+Renovate's `semver` versioning _strictly_ implements the [Semantic Versioning 2.0](https://semver.org) specification.
+Because the SemVer 2.0 specification does _not_ allow ranges, Renovate's `semver` versioning also does _not_ support ranges.
 
-Ranges are not supported, in line with the specification.
+Only use the `semver` versioning when you mean to follow the full SemVer 2.0 specifications strictly.
+If you need a more forgiving variant use `semver-coerced`.