Bazel Module Versions Aren’t SemVer

· Andrew Nesbitt · Aug. 27, 2026, 5:03 p.m.
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Summary
The blog post discusses the inconsistency between Bazel's module versioning and the semantic versioning (SemVer) principles, highlighting that the latest Bazel release of protobuf, as of 2022, deviates from strict SemVer expectations.
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