diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 31fccfe..463dd67 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
     "keywords": ["dev", "phpstan", "phpstan-extension", "static analysis"],
 
     "require": {
-        "php": "^7.4 || ^8.0"
+        "php": "^7.4 || ^8.0",
+        "composer/semver": "^3.4"
     },
 
     "require-dev": {
diff --git a/src/TodoByVersionRule.php b/src/TodoByVersionRule.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ac832af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/TodoByVersionRule.php
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace staabm\PHPStanTodoBy;
+
+use Composer\Semver\Comparator;
+use Composer\Semver\VersionParser;
+use PhpParser\Node;
+use PHPStan\Analyser\Scope;
+use PHPStan\Node\VirtualNode;
+use PHPStan\Rules\Rule;
+use PHPStan\Rules\RuleErrorBuilder;
+use PHPStan\ShouldNotHappenException;
+use function preg_match_all;
+use function strtotime;
+use function substr_count;
+use function time;
+use function trim;
+use const PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE;
+use const PREG_SET_ORDER;
+
+/**
+ * @implements Rule<Node>
+ */
+final class TodoByVersionRule implements Rule
+{
+    private const COMPARATORS = ['<', '>', '='];
+
+    private const PATTERN = <<<'REGEXP'
+/
+@?TODO # possible @ prefix
+@?[a-zA-Z0-9_-]*\s* # optional username
+\s*[:-]?\s* # optional colon or hyphen
+(?P<version>[<>=]+[^\s:\-]+) # version
+\s*[:-]?\s* # optional colon or hyphen
+(?P<comment>.*) # rest of line as comment text
+/ix
+REGEXP;
+
+    private string $referenceVersion;
+    private bool $nonIgnorable;
+
+    private VersionParser $versionParser;
+
+    public function __construct(bool $nonIgnorable, string $referenceVersion)
+    {
+        $this->versionParser = new VersionParser();
+
+        $this->referenceVersion = $this->versionParser->normalize($referenceVersion);
+        $this->nonIgnorable = $nonIgnorable;
+    }
+
+    private function getVersionComparator(string $version): ?string {
+        $comparator = null;
+        for($i = 0; $i < strlen($version); $i++) {
+            if (!in_array($version[$i], self::COMPARATORS)) {
+                break;
+            }
+            $comparator .= $version[$i];
+        }
+
+        return $comparator;
+
+    }
+
+    public function getNodeType(): string
+    {
+        return Node::class;
+    }
+
+    public function processNode(Node $node, Scope $scope): array
+    {
+        if (
+            $node instanceof VirtualNode
+            || $node instanceof Node\Expr
+        ) {
+            // prevent duplicate errors
+            return [];
+        }
+
+        $errors = [];
+
+        foreach ($node->getComments() as $comment) {
+
+            $text = $comment->getText();
+
+            /**
+             * PHP doc comments have the entire multi-line comment as the text.
+             * Since this could potentially contain multiple "todo" comments, we need to check all lines.
+             * This works for single line comments as well.
+             *
+             * PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE: Track where each "todo" comment starts within the whole comment text.
+             * PREG_SET_ORDER: Make each value of $matches be structured the same as if from preg_match().
+             */
+            if (preg_match_all(self::PATTERN, $text, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE | PREG_SET_ORDER) === FALSE) {
+                continue;
+            }
+
+            /** @var array<int, array<array{0: string, 1: int}>> $matches */
+            foreach ($matches as $match) {
+
+                $version = $match['version'][0];
+                $todoText = trim($match['comment'][0]);
+
+                $versionComparator = $this->getVersionComparator($version);
+                $plainVersion = ltrim($version, implode("", self::COMPARATORS));
+                $normalized = $this->versionParser->normalize($plainVersion);
+
+                $expired = false;
+                if ($versionComparator === '<') {
+                    $expired = Comparator::greaterThanOrEqualTo($this->referenceVersion, $normalized);
+                } elseif ($versionComparator === '>') {
+                    $expired = Comparator::greaterThan($this->referenceVersion, $normalized);
+                }
+
+                if (!$expired) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                // Have always present date at the start of the message.
+                // If there is further text, append it.
+                if ($todoText !== '') {
+                    $errorMessage = "Version requirement {$version} not satisfied: {$todoText}";
+                } else {
+                    $errorMessage = "Version requirement {$version} not satisfied";
+                }
+
+                $wholeMatchStartOffset = $match[0][1];
+
+                // Count the number of newlines between the start of the whole comment, and the start of the match.
+                $newLines = substr_count($text, "\n", 0, $wholeMatchStartOffset);
+
+                // Set the message line to match the line the comment actually starts on.
+                $messageLine = $comment->getStartLine() + $newLines;
+
+                $errBuilder = RuleErrorBuilder::message($errorMessage)->line($messageLine);
+                if ($this->nonIgnorable) {
+                    $errBuilder->nonIgnorable();
+                }
+                $errors[] = $errBuilder->build();
+            }
+        }
+
+        return $errors;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/tests/TodoByVersionRuleTest.php b/tests/TodoByVersionRuleTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..787dfa1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/TodoByVersionRuleTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace staabm\PHPStanTodoBy\Tests;
+
+use PHPStan\Rules\Rule;
+use PHPStan\Testing\RuleTestCase;
+use staabm\PHPStanTodoBy\TodoByDateRule;
+use staabm\PHPStanTodoBy\TodoByVersionRule;
+
+/**
+ * @extends RuleTestCase<TodoByVersionRule>
+ */
+final class TodoByVersionRuleTest extends RuleTestCase
+{
+    private string $referenceVersion;
+    protected function getRule(): Rule
+    {
+        return new TodoByVersionRule(true, $this->referenceVersion);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @param list<array{0: string, 1: int, 2?: string|null}> $errors
+     * @dataProvider provideErrors
+     */
+    public function testRule(string $referenceVersion, array $errors): void
+    {
+        $this->referenceVersion = $referenceVersion;
+
+        $this->analyse([__DIR__ . '/data/version.php'], $errors);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @return iterable<array{string, list<array{0: string, 1: int, 2?: string|null}>}>
+     */
+    static public function provideErrors(): iterable
+    {
+        yield [
+            "0.1",
+            [
+            ]
+        ];
+
+        yield [
+            "1.0",
+            [
+                [
+                    'Version requirement <1.0.0 not satisfied: This has to be in the first major release',
+                    5,
+                ],
+                [
+                'Version requirement <1.0.0 not satisfied',
+                    10,
+                ]
+            ]
+        ];
+
+        yield [
+            "123.4",
+            [
+                [
+                    'Version requirement <1.0.0 not satisfied: This has to be in the first major release',
+                    5,
+                ],
+                [
+                    'Version requirement <1.0.0 not satisfied',
+                    10,
+                ]
+            ]
+        ];
+
+        yield [
+            "123.5",
+            [
+                [
+                    'Version requirement <1.0.0 not satisfied: This has to be in the first major release',
+                    5,
+                ],
+                [
+                    'Version requirement >123.4 not satisfied: Must fix this or bump the version',
+                    7,
+                ],
+                [
+                    'Version requirement <1.0.0 not satisfied',
+                    10,
+                ]
+            ]
+        ];
+    }
+
+}
diff --git a/tests/data/version.php b/tests/data/version.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..576355a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/data/version.php
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace ExampleVersion;
+
+// TODO: <1.0.0 This has to be in the first major release
+function doFoo():void {
+    // TODO >123.4: Must fix this or bump the version
+}
+
+// TODO: <1.0.0