Hi Matthias, See inline.
On Tue, Jan 27, 2026 at 7:43 PM Matthias J. Sax <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, if we want to make "consumer" default with AK 5.0, it seems > reasonable to start the deprecation cycle now. In general, we aim to > have a one year deprecation period, so if we deprecate only in one year, > eg 4.6, we could only change the default if there is also 4.7 and 4.8 > release before 5.0 (or violate the one year guarantee we usually > provide). This sounds unnecessary risky. > This is not accurate - it's totally ok to change a default config without deprecating one of the config values. Ismael
