VER Versioning Policy

Two planes — record format and artifact release — the frozen-artifact rule, and the CPNP invariant.

1. OverviewApplies to: everything under standards/, the conformance profile in packages/ver-validator/, and the VER-F wire profile.
2. §1The two planesEvery Record carries two version fields:
3. §2What may change at each levelA patch release is corrective.
4. §3The frozen-artifact ruleA published artifact is never modified.
5. §4The CPNP invariantcpnp_version stays "1.0" for the entire VER 1.x line.
6. §5Profile and tooling versioningThe conformance profile (packages/ver-validator/) carries its own identifier, vera-profile/1.0, reported in every validation report.
7. §6The VER-F wire profileThe atproto lexicon org.verstandard.record is a projection of the VER Record onto a federation transport.
8. §7Deprecation policyNothing in VER 1.x is deprecated.
9. §8Quick reference
10. See also