Matthijs Kooijman wrote on Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 18:49:44 +0100: > In any case, I don't really know what the best course of action here is. > It seems backporting wouldn't cause any real problems, but I'm not > completely aware of the existing practices and policies within the > project...
The general rules are "No new features (only bugfixes) on patch releases" and "all patch releases on the same minor line (1.7.x) are bidirectionally compatible": http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/releasing#release-compat
