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Ship fast, break nothing: Engineering rigor in Icechunk with cross-version stateful compatibility testing

May 21, 2026

How we used third-wheel and Hypothesis to interleave Icechunk 1.x and 2.x in a single stateful test — and the bugs that fell out.

Ian Hunt-Isaak

Xarray Community Developer

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Cursed venvs, Confident Releases: Testing Icechunk Across Major Versions

March 20, 2026

Earthmover built third-wheel, an open-source tool that rewrites Python wheels to install multiple versions of a library in one environment, enabling cross-version compatibility testing for the Icechunk V2 release.

Ian Hunt-Isaak

Xarray Community Developer

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Ship fast, break nothing: Engineering rigor in Icechunk with cross-version stateful compatibility testing

Cursed venvs, Confident Releases: Testing Icechunk Across Major Versions

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