Commit 22e2ecb0 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
Browse files

provide some track record of the SONAME bumps

parent e08296f7
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
+15 −0
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -52,3 +52,18 @@ Downgrades
  that doesn't support the options your application needs. Or possibly you
  even downgrade so far so you cross an ABI break border and thus a different
  soname, and then your application may need to adapt to the modified ABI.

History

  The previous major library soname number bumps (breaking backwards
  compatibility) have happened the following times:

  0 - libcurl 7.1,   August 200

  1 - libcurl 7.5    December 2000

  2 - libcurl 7.7    March 2001

  3 - libcurl 7.12.0 June 2004

  4 - libcurl 7.16.0 October 2006