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> From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:05:55 +0100
> 
> The current emacs development version is "28.0.5".

You mean, "28.0.50", right?

> I know that "28" is the value of the emacs-major-version variable
> and "0" is the value of the emacs-minor-version variable. I assume
> "5" is also the value of a variable, but what's its name?

It's not a variable.  The version string comes from configure.ac, see
AC_INIT there.