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		aeyes on July 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why we're ending support for MySQL Why is such a major change implemented in a minor version?

silverwind on July 3, 2019 | [–]

Probably because marketing drives their versioning (e.g. major versions are reserved to shiny new features), not semver.

sytse on July 3, 2019 | [–]

It was announced in the major version of 12.0

I think we wanted to make it easy to upgrade to 12 before making the switch.

valtism on July 4, 2019 | [–]

That isn't how semver is supposed to work though.

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