From 8db280d8748c9285e79df9694f5056e38cce89af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jesse Plamondon-Willard <github@jplamondonw.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 22:30:07 -0500
Subject: expose SemanticVersion constructor that parses a string

---
 release-notes.md                         | 6 ++++++
 src/StardewModdingAPI/SemanticVersion.cs | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/release-notes.md b/release-notes.md
index 4e7b3a30..2ef8b332 100644
--- a/release-notes.md
+++ b/release-notes.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Release notes
 
+## 1.8
+See [log](https://github.com/Pathoschild/SMAPI/compare/1.7...1.8).
+
+* For mod developers:
+  * You can now create a `SemanticVersion` from a version string.
+
 ## 1.7
 See [log](https://github.com/Pathoschild/SMAPI/compare/1.6...1.7).
 
diff --git a/src/StardewModdingAPI/SemanticVersion.cs b/src/StardewModdingAPI/SemanticVersion.cs
index daefda51..c29f2cf7 100644
--- a/src/StardewModdingAPI/SemanticVersion.cs
+++ b/src/StardewModdingAPI/SemanticVersion.cs
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ namespace StardewModdingAPI
         /// <summary>Construct an instance.</summary>
         /// <param name="version">The semantic version string.</param>
         /// <exception cref="FormatException">The <paramref name="version"/> is not a valid semantic version.</exception>
-        internal SemanticVersion(string version)
+        public SemanticVersion(string version)
         {
             var match = SemanticVersion.Regex.Match(version);
             if (!match.Success)
-- 
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