Comment 12 for bug 286906

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In , Jorendorff (jorendorff) wrote :

(In reply to comment #5)
> We're already changing API incompatibly:
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> http://bit.ly/3mJBqR
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> Other possible changes include OOM handling, but this one looks like it won't
> change for the API users:
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> http://bit.ly/1AjSUj
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> We definitely want to change the GC rooting API, and add a write barrier:
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> https://wiki.mozilla.org/JavaScript:SpiderMonkey:GC_Futures

All these things happened or will happen in trunk. I don't think any of them are likely to be backported to a stable branch.

If we ever do want to backport a breaking change to a stable branch, we could just bump the major version number. But that has not happened much in the past and I don't expect it to happen much in the future.