Chapter 21. API compatibility definition
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## Chapter 21. API compatibility definition

This chapter presents the formal definition of what is considered to be in the PLplot library API. It is assumed that major new releases of PLplot will have substantial backwards incompatible changes in the API, but the PLplot developers commit to introducing as few as possible of such incompatibilities between minor releases such that stability across those minor releases is practically guaranteed. In all cases where backwards incompatible changes have been introduced, then the library soname will be changed (for operating systems such as Linux that support versioned shared libraries).

The information in this chapter regards version 5.13.0 of PLplot, released on 2017-08-26.

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