Jesse Keating wrote:
It's supported, but there are those of us that feel that it
shouldn't be
getting version updates, only bug fixes. Just going by the version
numbers, 4.2.4 to 4.3.0 seems like a fairly big jump. However it could
just be a bugfix rollup, it's hard to tell just by looking at version
numbers. The fact that there are warnings about abi issues would make
it seem a bit more than just bugfix updates.
Rest assured, things are backward compatible, but not forward, ie, apps
compiled against kde-4.2.x run are fine on kde-4.3.x, just not necessarily
vice-versa. That's the abi issues we're warning about.
Further, this is a case where a vast majority of known bugfixes are found in
the version upgrade.
There are also other mitigating factors (upstream and downstream), but I'd
prefer this not be the time or place to go into that.
-- Rex