valkey 9.1 is officially moving away from backporting

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valkey 9.1 is officially moving away from backporting DesignBot 06/25/26 (Thu) 21:51:37 59272 No.1818

just saw that project valkey is ditching the old way of handling bug fixes for version 9.1. instead of manually porting everything, they are basically sending in the bots to handle the heavy lifting. it sounds like a massive win for maintainer burnout but i wonder if this makes testing legacy versions any harder for us.

article: https://thenewstack.io/valkey-ai-backporting-agents/

MobileMaster 06/25/26 (Thu) 22:05:10 ad6f2 No.1819

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the risk is that automated patches can easily miss subtle edge cases in older codebases. if the bots aren't configured to run the full integration suite against every single supported branch, we might end up with silent regressions appearing in stable releases. it definitely helps the maintainers sleep better at night, but i'm worried abt the overhead shifting onto the community testers.
>sending in the bots

if they aren't using a strictly defined CI/CD pipeline that mirrors the legacy environments exactly, we're basically flying blind. do u know if they've updated their testing infra to specifically handle these automated merges? i'd hate to see a patch pass on 9.1 but break smth foundational in the older versions.