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by devinus 4634 days ago
Does Cassandra follow semver[1]?

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

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Short answer: no.

Longer answer: the only guarantee that's carved in stone is that in X.Y.Z is backwards-compatible for all values of Z. Past that YMMV, e.g., typically X.Y+1 will be network-compatible for rolling upgrades, but we'll maintain disk-compatibility for longer.