changing the major version number is a marketing-based decision.
As far I know, they do not follow this scheme. The higher the number of changes in code, the greater the number of the version. They're trying to upgrade the software in such way that in one year we'll have a new version. It's not marketing but a computer/code target as far I know.
I'm not saying that "marketing" is indeed the reason. I have no real knowledge about the reasons. I'm just pointing out that in 15 years, Avast changed from 1.0 to 4.0 and 5 years to get from 4.0 to 4.8. I do NOT think that in
20 years Avast have changed LESS than in the last 18 months
.
Those are numbers. The real job is the important thing. In any case, it seems that some group of users have changed in the last 25 years
, simply because in the first 20 years there were not so many questions about when the next major version number would be released, specially not after only 4 months of the latest major number upgrade.
Avast, please keep providing good security tools for millions of users, and keep improving. Whichever version number you want to use, it's fine with me
. I haven't asked before, and I never will.