In looking at PR #210 "StreamingJsonBuilder - fix IllegalStateException when writing unescaped output" [1] I noticed that commit c5c0cefb36 [2] that introduced the unescaped output feature was merged into both master and 2_4_X. I didn't think new features were normally introduced in patch releases so was just curious how this should be handled (i.e., merge fix or revert commit). Just trying to get a good understanding for how the versioning scheme [4] is applied and to see if there might have been a good reason to include it or if possibly it was just by mistake.
P.S. Another related commit is 0bf2cb5d [3]. [1] https://github.com/apache/groovy/pull/210 [2] https://github.com/apache/groovy/commit/c5c0cefb365b6a4c00335abeeed124cc8356a4c8 [3] https://github.com/apache/groovy/commit/0bf2cb5d334a9ac095904d607867e4aee1807979 [4] http://www.groovy-lang.org/versioning.html
