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 <[email protected]> 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 >
