Hi Mike,
Bug-fixes should be landing in both branches if applicable and both
branches receive no new features (per semantic versioning). If you
aren't tied to one or the other, choose 1.7 as it's the way of the
future. While 1.6 is probably "safer" due to being out and in use longer
than 1.7, that doesn't imply that 1.7 is unsafe.
We have also not discussed EOL'ing 1.6 so that is not an immediate
concern but I'd guess that it would happen within the next year or two.
Michael Moss wrote:
Hello,
Curious to get the community's thoughts on why folks would stay on or
start with 1.6 vs 1.7. The 1.7 release notes say "Approximately
two-thirds were bugs and one-third were improvements." were a large
percentage of these bug fixes ported to the 1.6.x line as well? Is 1.7
considered 'bleeding edge' because it has so many new features and
therefore the 'riskier' option? How should we think about this?
Thanks!
-Mike
