Are Filament versions semantic?

[SlimDeluxe]

Package

Panel builder

Package Version

v3.2.141

How can we help you?

Hi everyone,
I am developing a panel plugin for Filament and have a problem understanding how Filament versions work.
When following the installation instructions, you are advised with

composer require filament/filament:"^3.2" -W

In general when developing, you are advised to test with dependencies installed as both --prefer-stable and --prefer-lowest. All good.
However, my plugin uses the globalSearchFieldSuffix method on the Panel class, but it only became available later, not with 3.2. It's a new feature, but it has not bumped the minor version, as it should have under semantic versioning guidelines and AFAIK all composer packages should adhere to it.

So what I am asking is:

1. Is this an exception/mistake that the minor version was not bumped?
2. If not, what is the correct dependency constraints and testing strategy for developing plugins?

Any help would be kindly appreciated.

[SlimDeluxe]

PS:
The above method was merged in 3.2.73.
While testing just now I found another one: simplePageMaxContentWidth was added in 3.2.126.
c9e458a
It seems this is common. It would also explain why after more than a year the minor version is still only 2 but the "fixes" are already at 142.