alt Hacker News> The changes between 5.1 and 5.2 seem small as well.
And then after 5.1, basically every minor version (5.2, 5.3, so on) have major changes between them, from what I recall.
> The changes between 5.1 and 5.2 seem small as well.
And then after 5.1, basically every minor version (5.2, 5.3, so on) have major changes between them, from what I recall.
Their defence is always that they do not follow semver.
I remember some undocumented edge cases in string match patterns breaking between 5.1 and 5.2. Imagine Python changing how regexes worked between two minor releases.