On 07/30/2017 01:16 PM, William A Rowe Jr wrote:
On Jul 28, 2017 6:37 PM, "Nick Kew" <n...@apache.org> wrote:
On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 15:02 -0500, Ben Harper wrote:
Greetings,
I have some questions regarding the life cycle of the different versions
of apr and apr-util that the 'Version Numbers' page did not fully
answer. Different projects handle life cycle differently. Some only
support the latest version, while others support several versions
concurrently. Is only 1.6 support or will 1.5 still get updates?
The distinction is less important than with some projects.
1.5 is unlikely to get updates now unless hit by some serious
security issue. But 1.6 is really just an incremental update
on 1.5: the main reason for the version bump is how it deals
with third-party dependencies: expat is unbundled, and more
up-to-date versions of some other libraries are supported.
Note also, beyond self contained enhancements (some of which might become
httpd 2.4 prereqs for newer features), we have been pretty good about
making new dependencies optional in the 1.x series. So adopting 1.6 (and at
some point, 1.7) should be relatively painless.
Hey Nick and William,
Thanks for the timely replies. Would it be safe to say that there will
be no breaking changes till a 2.x version?
Thanks,
Ben
IUS & Rackspace
