Hi Josiah

> A compounding factor is that devs of older stuff are often NOT around to fix 
> for compliance with new.
> The issue is the users who relied on what they thought were kosher tools that 
> STOP working that the author won't fix.

Indeed.

>  Jeremy: |  do plan to update the release note with a more prominent warning 
> of the impact of this change.
> 
> Good! IMHO, it might also be worth mentioning that their tool of concern 
> would continue to run fine under previous versions of TW. 
> For working apps mostly it is NOT needed you upgrade! 
> (("Upgradeitis" is a serious modern disease. :-))

>From the core perspective we really want people to upgrade actively used wikis 
>to each new version because it’s expensive and complex to offer support for 
>old versions. For example, if we had a user on v5.1.23 who was holding back 
>updating to v5.2.0 then that user wouldn’t be able to benefit from bug fixes 
>in subsequent releases. If they reported a bug that was then fixed by the core 
>team they wouldn’t be able to get the fix without updating.

Best wishes

Jeremy

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