we should also point out that our ops guys here at yahoo! don't like the break at major clause. i imagine when we do the next major release we will try to be one release backwards compatible. (although we shouldn't promise it until we successfully do it once :) ben On 09/30/2010 10:29 AM, Patrick Hunt wrote: > Historically major releases can have non-bw compatible changes. However if > you look back through the release history you'll see that the last time that > happened was oct 2008, when we moved the project from sourceforge to apache. > > Patrick > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Jun Rao wrote: > >> What about major releases going forward? Thanks, >> >> Jun >> >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Patrick Hunt wrote: >> >>> In general yes, minor and bug fix releases are fully backward compatible. >>> >>> Patrick >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Jun Rao wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Does ZK support (and plan to support in the future) backward >> compatibility >>>> (so that a new client can talk to an old server and vice versa)? >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Jun >>>> >>>