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Arne Mertz

I understand. Is backporting something you regularly see? In my experience, it is close to impossible in legacy projects, because new functionality builds on basically everything that came before. Taking a single piece of functionality back to an earlier version usually does not pay off.

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Anurag Mathur 

Yes, Arne. We backport a lot of bug fixes from the current development branch to production branches. Many-a-times, we had to deliver an enhancement required by a customer, and we would code that on a development branch, and then backport it to production branches.