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Author	Jim.Jewett
Recipients	Jim.Jewett, Lukasa, alex, christian.heimes, dstufft, georg.brandl, giampaolo.rodola, hynek, janssen, larry, python-dev, steve.dower
Date	2016年09月08日.16:26:35
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In general, the rule is that micro versions (such as 3.4.4 to 3.4.5) should not make any changes that are not clearly bug fixes. If users would call the new API (or ABI) differently, it is almost certainly a change that should be reserved for a development release (3.4 to 3.5). That said, the two main reasons for exceptions are security (not an automatic OK, but at least not an automatic NO) and "no one could possibly rely on the old behavior", which covers "this wouldn't even compile on this platform before".

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In general, the rule is that micro versions (such as 3.4.4 to 3.4.5)
should not make any changes that are not clearly bug fixes. If users would
call the new API (or ABI) differently, it is almost certainly a change that
should be reserved for a development release (3.4 to 3.5).
That said, the two main reasons for exceptions are security (not an
automatic OK, but at least not an automatic NO) and "no one could possibly
rely on the old behavior", which covers "this wouldn't even compile on this
platform before".

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Date	User	Action	Args
2016年09月08日 16:26:36	Jim.Jewett	set	recipients: + Jim.Jewett, georg.brandl, janssen, larry, giampaolo.rodola, christian.heimes, alex, python-dev, hynek, steve.dower, dstufft, Lukasa
2016年09月08日 16:26:36	Jim.Jewett	link	issue27850 messages
2016年09月08日 16:26:35	Jim.Jewett	create

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