When going from 3.6.0 to 3.6.1 - a patch release - `GOOGLE_PROTOBUF_MIN_LIBRARY_VERSION` was bumped from 3006000 to 3006001 [as seen here](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/commit/9e1286b949adc40b450a0097c6ffd4dd491506c0#diff-cbd31ea2a5761cd281396b4277c36887) (and this happens at other patch releases too but I'm interested in 3.6.1).
I think it should have remained at 3.6.0 for a patch release. Surely binary compatibility was maintained? Why is it bumped up? (And bonus question: If I just stomp on that value in `common.h` with `3006000` I'm not going to run into any problems, right? I'm only interested in a C++/Linux environment, and having checked the [3.6.0->3.6.1 diff](https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/compare/v3.6.1...3.6.x) the only things which is problematic to my (inexperienced) eyes are the additional symbol exports from `io/gzip_stream.h` and `repeated_field.h` - but I don't see that the C++ generated code would have changed to reference those symbols...) (This is causing problems where we're delivering a plugin - compiled against protobuf 3.6.1 - to a product which is compiled against 3.6.0 and thus the protobuf shared library is 3.6.0 and the version check fails. But any 3.6.x should work.) -- David P.S. This is my first question here - and I'm "double-posting" with an issue too (https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/5895) and I'm not sure if this is correct. Please let me know. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Protocol Buffers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to protobuf+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to protobuf@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/protobuf. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
