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### Caret requirements
**Caret requirements** allow SemVer compatible updates to a specified version.
An update is allowed if the new version number does not modify the left-most non-zero digit in the major, minor, patch grouping.
In this case, if we ran `poetry update requests`, poetry would update us to version `2.14.0` if it was available,
but would not update us to `3.0.0`.
If instead we had specified the version string as `^0.1.13`, poetry would update to `0.1.14` but not `0.2.0`.
`0.0.x` is not considered compatible with any other version.
**Caret requirements** allow [SemVer](https://semver.org/) compatible updates to a specified version. An update is allowed if the new version number does not modify the left-most non-zero digit in the major, minor, patch grouping. For instance, if we previously ran `poetry add requests@^2.13.0` and wanted to update the library and ran `poetry update requests`, poetry would update us to version `2.14.0` if it was available, but would not update us to `3.0.0`. If instead we had specified the version string as `^0.1.13`, poetry would update to `0.1.14` but not `0.2.0`. `0.0.x` is not considered compatible with any other version.
Here are some more examples of caret requirements and the versions that would be allowed with them:
