[New Feature]: Reduce Version Explosion

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Currently, every PR bumps a version depending on major, minor, or bug.

It ends up increasing many versions in 1 release. This is done so that the "release" tab is not ovewritten before a release.

But each release has a jump in version.

Describe the feature request

• Instead of bumping the real version in PR merges, append another version.
• Example: Just after a fresh release, the version is 17.3.1.
• When a PR is created as a feature, it will become 17.3.1D0.1.0
• When another PR is created as a bug, it will become 17.3.1D0.1.1
• and so on..
• When it finally releases, it will choose the largest non 0 after D to increase the real version
• Example: 17.3.1D0.4.6 where it has 4 new features and 6 bugfixes, it becomes 17.4.0
• Example: 17.3.1D1.0.6 where it has 1 breaking change and 6 bugfixes, it becomes 18.0.0