To add to this here is a Twitter/X thread that the developer of SDR++ has put out, regarding the issues he's seeing with this major version number change.

https://twitter.com/ryzerth/status/1771016439681466697

Regards,
Carl


On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 3:19 PM Carl Laufer <admin@rtl-sdr.com> wrote:
Hi, I just saw that the major version number was recently bumped on the osmocom rtl-sdr. 

Unfortunately this seems to be causing upgrade problems because if a user updates the drivers to the new major version number (eg to get Blog V4 support), the soname is now different, and this means that all previously installed software that uses librtlsdr will need to be recompiled from scratch, and software from the package manager will simply be broken.

I'm not sure if the recent changes warrant a major version change and the problems that come with it?

Regards,
Carl