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  1. Backward Compatibility
  2. ======================
  3. pyOpenSSL has a very strong backward compatibility policy.
  4. Generally speaking, you shouldn't ever be afraid of updating.
  5. If breaking changes are needed do be done, they are:
  6. #. …announced in the :doc:`changelog`.
  7. #. …the old behavior raises a :exc:`DeprecationWarning` for a year.
  8. #. …are done with another announcement in the :doc:`changelog`.