alt Hacker News> Version bumps should really be about removing deprecated cruft rather than shiny new features.
Can there be deprecated cruft without new features? :-D
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SkiFire13 • today at 11:20 AM
Yes, the features don't need to be added immediately.
> Version bumps should really be about removing deprecated cruft rather than shiny new features.
Can there be deprecated cruft without new features? :-D
Yes, the features don't need to be added immediately.
Ideally: no.
All new shiny new features shouldn't have waited for the (N+1).0 version, they should already have been part of the (N).(M) version.
In practice, the removing the deprecated cruft will remove blockers for some new features, but that should be rare.