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13This discusses information relevant to developing MetPy.
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18MetPy follows `semantic versioning <https://semver.org>`_ in its version number. This means
19that any MetPy ``1.x`` release will be backwards compatible with an earlier ``1.y`` release. By
20"backward compatible", we mean that **correct** code that works on a ``1.y`` version will work
21on a future ``1.x`` version. It's always possible for bug fixes to change behavior or make
22incorrect code cease to work. Backwards-incompatible changes will only be allowed when changing
23to version ``2.0``. Such changes will be proceeded by `MetpyDeprecationWarning` or
24`FutureWarning` as appropriate. For a version ``1.x.y``, we change ``x`` when we
25release new features, and ``y`` when we make a release with only bug fixes.
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