Hi Josiah
> A compounding factor is that devs of older stuff are often NOT around to fix
> for compliance with new.
> The issue is the users who relied on what they thought were kosher tools that
> STOP working that the author won't fix.
Indeed.
> Jeremy: | do plan to update the release note with a more prominent warning
> of the impact of this change.
>
> Good! IMHO, it might also be worth mentioning that their tool of concern
> would continue to run fine under previous versions of TW.
> For working apps mostly it is NOT needed you upgrade!
> (("Upgradeitis" is a serious modern disease. :-))
>From the core perspective we really want people to upgrade actively used wikis
>to each new version because it’s expensive and complex to offer support for
>old versions. For example, if we had a user on v5.1.23 who was holding back
>updating to v5.2.0 then that user wouldn’t be able to benefit from bug fixes
>in subsequent releases. If they reported a bug that was then fixed by the core
>team they wouldn’t be able to get the fix without updating.
Best wishes
Jeremy
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