Patch-level updates (was Re: Upgrade to latest...)

[Kenneth Brody]

brian at aljex.com wrote:
> 
> If fp would desist in including new features and altered behaviour in
> patch-level updates you'd have a point. (the z in x.y.z)

New features added in patch-level updates are usually minor (such as
allowing @ID to return the username under Windows), or something that
is useful enough to not wait until the next release (such as adding
the PFSHOWROWCOL=OFF config variable to allow filePro to work better
with screenreaders for the blind and visually impaired).

Changes in behavior are probably either bugfixes (the old behavior was
broken), or a bug itself (the change should not have happened).

> Also we need to be able to trust that no major re-writes of code happen in patch
> level updates even if the end result is supposed to produce the same outward
> behaviour.

There haven't been "major rewrites of code" during patch level updates
that I can think of.

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