`git describe`

[Ryan Schmidt]

> On Nov 28, 2016, at 3:28 PM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> As you discovered yourself now, 'port version' of master identifies
>> itself as 2.3.99 at the moment.
> 
> Yes, and if you look at the history of the script in config that sets that version, it apparently has been fixed at 2.3.99 for about 2 years now.

That's correct and intentional. It was changed to 2.3.99 after we created the 2.3 release branch, which was 2 years ago. After we create a 2.4 release branch, the version on master will be changed to 2.4.99.