Crypto++ 8.9.0 was released on October 1, 2023. As part of the release process, we bump version numbers for semantic versioning per https://www.cryptopp.com/wiki/Release_Versioning#Increment.

Crypto++ has a `CRYPTOPP_VERSION` macro, but it cannot handle '10' in the minor position. We cannot go from:

```c
#define CRYPTOPP_VERSION 890
```

to version 8.10.

An additional constraint is, `CRYPTOPP_VERSION` has always used 10-based numbers. They are not hexadecimal based.

This report will track the problem.

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```
$ grep CRYPTOPP_VERSION *.h *.cpp
config_ver.h:/// \sa CRYPTOPP_VERSION, LibraryVersion(), HeaderVersion()
config_ver.h:/// \sa CRYPTOPP_VERSION, LibraryVersion(), HeaderVersion()
config_ver.h:/// \sa CRYPTOPP_VERSION, LibraryVersion(), HeaderVersion()
config_ver.h:/// \details CRYPTOPP_VERSION reflects the version of the library the headers
config_ver.h:#define CRYPTOPP_VERSION 8A0
cryptlib.h:     return CRYPTOPP_VERSION;
bench1.cpp:     oss << "\n<H1><A href=\"http://www.cryptopp.com\">Crypto++ " << CRYPTOPP_VERSION / 100;
bench1.cpp:     oss << '.' << (CRYPTOPP_VERSION % 100) / 10 << '.' << CRYPTOPP_VERSION % 10 << "</A> Benchmarks</H1>";
cryptlib.cpp:# define CRYPTOPP_BUILD_VERSION CRYPTOPP_VERSION
test.cpp:                       std::cout << CRYPTOPP_VERSION / 100 << '.' << (CRYPTOPP_VERSION % 100) / 10 << '.' << CRYPTOPP_VERSION % 10 << std::endl;
```
CRYPTOPP_VERSION has reached its limits
This is a GitHub Issue
repo:cryptopp
owner:weidai11
Title : CRYPTOPP_VERSION has reached its limits
Issue date:

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Crypto++ 8.9.0 was released on October 1, 2023. As part of the release process, we bump version numbers for semantic versioning per https://www.cryptopp.com/wiki/Release_Versioning#Increment.

Crypto++ has a `CRYPTOPP_VERSION` macro, but it cannot handle '10' in the minor position. We cannot go from:

```c
#define CRYPTOPP_VERSION 890
```

to version 8.10.

An additional constraint is, `CRYPTOPP_VERSION` has always used 10-based numbers. They are not hexadecimal based.

This report will track the problem.

----

```
$ grep CRYPTOPP_VERSION *.h *.cpp
config_ver.h:/// \sa CRYPTOPP_VERSION, LibraryVersion(), HeaderVersion()
config_ver.h:/// \sa CRYPTOPP_VERSION, LibraryVersion(), HeaderVersion()
config_ver.h:/// \sa CRYPTOPP_VERSION, LibraryVersion(), HeaderVersion()
config_ver.h:/// \details CRYPTOPP_VERSION reflects the version of the library the headers
config_ver.h:#define CRYPTOPP_VERSION 8A0
cryptlib.h:     return CRYPTOPP_VERSION;
bench1.cpp:     oss << "\n<H1><A href=\"http://www.cryptopp.com\">Crypto++ " << CRYPTOPP_VERSION / 100;
bench1.cpp:     oss << '.' << (CRYPTOPP_VERSION % 100) / 10 << '.' << CRYPTOPP_VERSION % 10 << "</A> Benchmarks</H1>";
cryptlib.cpp:# define CRYPTOPP_BUILD_VERSION CRYPTOPP_VERSION
test.cpp:                       std::cout << CRYPTOPP_VERSION / 100 << '.' << (CRYPTOPP_VERSION % 100) / 10 << '.' << CRYPTOPP_VERSION % 10 << std::endl;
```
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