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Description
Removes arbitrary string versioning support (VersionTypeString, NewStringVersion()) from Epoch.
Previously, NewVersion() silently fell back to creating a string-typed version for any input that
wasn't a valid date or semver, which enabled ambiguous parsing and lexicographic ordering
comparisons.
Now, NewVersion() returns an error for non-date/non-semver values, enforcing strict version
format validation at parse time. This is a breaking change.
Changes:
formats
🎟 Issue(s)
CPP-410: Design proposal: remove string versioning, support only date + semver
🧪 Functional Testing
a date (YYYY-MM-DD) or semver (X.Y.Z or X.Y)"
📸 Screenshots
📋 Checklist
examples/directory