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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