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[jira] [Created] (AVRO-2687) Semantic Verisoning

Elliotte Rusty Harold created AVRO-2687:
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             Summary: Semantic Verisoning
                 Key: AVRO-2687
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2687
             Project: Apache Avro
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Elliotte Rusty Harold


API level and other incompatibility between Avro minor versions is causing significant problems for Apache Beam. E.g. [https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/9779]

 

Stable releases that don't break backwards compatibility would help us and other users a great deal. E.g. not removing joda.time support in 1.10.

 

Absent that, at  a minimum Avro should update its major version for any API breaking change. E.g. 1.9 should have been 2.0 because it was not API compatible with 1.8. In the case of Avro, this would apply not just to the public Java API but also to the serialization format. 

 

 



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