Now is definitely the time to fix this. Glad to have this added to blocker board.
On 3/11/21, 11:09 AM, "Jens Deppe" <jde...@vmware.com> wrote: +1 On 3/11/21, 10:49 AM, "Nabarun Nag" <n...@vmware.com> wrote: Hi everyone, Putting forward the proposal to backport GEODE-9091 (Serialization Improvements) to support/1.14 branch, What does GEODE-9091 do? * It adds serialVersionUID to the Serializable classes in geode-redis module * It converts all DataSerializable classes to DataSerializableFixedID classes Why do we need to backport these changes? * These changes future-proofs the geode-redis data structures from being used in mixed version clusters. * This will ensure that changes to serializable classes do not break backward compatibility. * If these classes get changed in the future, the serialVersionUIDs will remain the same and can be used with older and newer versions. * If we don't backport these changes to 1.14.0 then future releases of geode-redis will not be compatible with it. Reference PR:[link<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fapache%2Fgeode%2Fpull%2F6115&data=04%7C01%7Conichols%40vmware.com%7Ca2d79be99dd54c16b4b708d8e4c123d6%7Cb39138ca3cee4b4aa4d6cd83d9dd62f0%7C1%7C0%7C637510865516229676%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=I%2FASI9ogVDTMx%2F17agyKUVtBAtlc8L22CFegf71RQWE%3D&reserved=0>] Regards Nabarun Nag