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Posted to dev@parquet.apache.org by Andrew Lamb <an...@gmail.com> on 2026/07/03 14:39:04 UTC

Re: [DISCUSS] Moving to SemVer for parquet-format releases

I think having parquet-format version numbering follow SemVer [1] would
help communicate the backwards compatibility of the changes in each release
and thus I support this proposal.

The other nice property is that it doesn't change anyone's workflow or have
other downstream impacts other than informational and helping people
understand the content of each release

Andrew



[1]: https://semver.org/

On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 10:16 AM Micah Kornfield <em...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> As part of the discussion on versioning [1] a proposal was made to move
> parquet-format releases to SemVer. In particular the one concrete proposal
> [2] is to do a major version bump every time a release includes a forward
> incompatible change.
>
> I'm starting this thread to collect other ideas per request of Antoine [3].
>
> Thanks,
> Micah
>
> [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/st8l40z5n4cx5c22rcog50ws4pkzdc3s
> [2] https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/588 (note this change
> has
> other non-related changes, that can be discussed separately).
> [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/tvlo1s2kzwo340vqrlt898yoxgpt8wxj
>