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<jun...@gmail.com>  wrote:

What about major releases going forward? Thanks,

Jun

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Patrick Hunt<ph...@apache.org>  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<jun...@gmail.com>  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



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