On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 1:32 PM, Yonik Seeley <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Michael McCandless > <[email protected]> wrote: >> We are precluding it: 5.5.x is the last feature release before 6.0.0. >> >> I don't think we should do another 5.x feature release after 6.0.0 is out. > > Can't that be decided at some point in the future (i.e. if someone > wants to go through the work of backporting some features to 5x and > making a 5.6)? > Or is there a technical reason (like something to do with the versions > stored in the index) why that wouldn't be feasible?
That's exactly it. In a 5.6 release we are normally free to improve the index format, as long as the change is backwards compatible (5.6 can still read all 4.x and 5.x indices). But if we do that then the (already released) 6.0 won't be able to read 5.6 indices, which I think would be very bad. Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
