What is the caret sign (^) before the dependency version number in Flutter’s pubspec.yaml?

The caret sign (^) is used for pub dependencies in Dart to indicate a range of version numbers are allowed. Specifically, any version from the specified version up to (but not including) the next non-breaking version is ok. So ^3.1.5 is the same as ‘>=3.1.5 <4.0.0’ And ^1.2.3 would be the same as ‘>=1.2.3 <2.0.0’ … Read more

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