Final by default?

[Andrej Mitrovic]

On 3/13/14, Daniele Vian <dontreply at example.com> wrote:
> I think you can do every changes you need / you want but you
> should allow some time for people to update to new versions. No
> problems if you want to set a function as "deprecated" (or even a
> whole library) but please don't break compatibility all of a
> sudden (and without warning even in the changelog).

As was said before this wasn't a planned API break, it was a
regression. It will be fixed in the next point release, the fix for
this has already been merged to the master branch.

But why didn't you simply file a bug report instead of report to Walter?