Hi,
On 2026-01-14 23:10:38 +0100, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> Is this the whole guidelines we have for this ?
I don't think we have more written down in a central place.
> Did not recognise it at once, but I assume that this implies also
> things about backporting, as only way to backport something is to put
> it in a minor release.
Correct.
> I was hoping that there were some exceptions possible for things
> affecting interactions between different versions that need also
> support from older versions, but if this page is all we have then
> likely not.
I think we have made maybe a handful of exceptions over the years, not more.
> Do we have the same strict no improvements in minor versions policy
> for contrib/ extensions and tools?
Yes.
Greetings,
Andres Freund
