@Marcelo - Many thanks...Yes. That makes sense. Thanks. Seems like this release 
should be a -1 then because we’re breaking BC without a major version change. 
Right??

-Rob


> On Jan 28, 2019, at 2:07 PM, Marcelo Vanzin <van...@cloudera.com.INVALID> 
> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 11:01 AM Rob Tompkins <chtom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Before I vote on the the thread, does adding a method to an interface cause 
>> BC to break? I would think not. All of the clirr errors are merely 
>> additions. Further the JAPICMP report confirms this.
> 
> Existing classes that implement the interface won't have the newly
> added method. So if some other code calls that method in one of these
> implementations, they'll get an "AbstractMethodError" (or something
> similar).
> 
> -- 
> Marcelo
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