"...a point release...[that] doesn't seem to change the overall API too drastically"
In other words, you mean "a point release," right? I know that many open source projects (I'm looking at you, Drupal!) may not care about this, but when I see a minor revision number change, I expect my applications and plugins to keep working without a major overhaul.
Well... point release might be the wrong term. I usually think of that being the third number. I guess I meant "minor version release".
Hence, not a major overhaul. Perhaps a minor one. I usually take the first number to involve some large-scale shift in the architecture of the thing, the second number to be minor API changes, and the third to be bugfixes and security updates.
In other words, you mean "a point release," right? I know that many open source projects (I'm looking at you, Drupal!) may not care about this, but when I see a minor revision number change, I expect my applications and plugins to keep working without a major overhaul.