More strongly recommend to use the latest version #12093
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Thanks. This is fine by me. I will wait to see what others in the team think about making the recommendation stronger.
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| version of Solidity. This is because breaking changes as well as | ||
| new features and bug fixes are introduced regularly. We currently use | ||
| a 0.x version number `to indicate this fast pace of change <https://semver.org/#spec-item-4>`_. | ||
| When deploying contracts, you should only use the latest released version of Solidity. |
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I think this reads (and has read before) a bit weird - maybe we should instead emphasize that you should use the latest version because only it is guaranteed to gets security fixes (sometimes we also fix older versions)?
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My goal here is to make this language as strong as the Solidity team will allow. My preference is:
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Totally fine, @fulldecent - my comment was mainly about restructuring the paragraph so that it is clearer why we only recommend the latest version. |
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I think the wording is ok now and the text does reflect our general policy.
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@fulldecent Can you squash your commits and rebase on the latest |
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The publish Solidity security policy should be helpful to people when deciding which version of Solidity to use. So a reference is added.