approach on our wiki.
All Concordion and extension builds that we publish now on, will include 
additional entries in MANIFEST.MF, with the 
Specification-Version containing 
MAJOR.MINOR and the 
Implementation-Version containing 
MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH (amongst other additional entries).
I'm quite close to releasing Concordion 2.2.0 now, which contains API changes that break some extensions. We'll release new versions of these extensions. Concordion checks for usage of these extensions, and errors if you try to use an outdated version (see the 
ExtensionChecker class).
Concordion 2.2.0 also deprecates some API calls used by the embed-extension, excel-extension and screenshot-extension. Concordion will warn you to update the extension versions if you are using an outdated version of these.