Compatibility in Apache Lens

Apache Lens tries to offer backward compatibility across releases with respect to the following

• lens-api module dependency : API for org.apache.lens.api.*
• REST api provided : Published REST api
• Configuration options provided at Client configuration, OLAP query configuration and Server configuration.
• Deployment stack : Published at Suggested deployment

For any changes proposed in lens-api, REST api and configuration options, Apache Lens community will do atleast one release with backward compatibility making current usage deprecated.

If there are any incompatibilities with respect to the above in any release, the major version will be upgraded and called out as incompatible with earlier version. Major version number upgrade is optional for alpha/beta releases. For all incompatible changes in a release, tools/documentation will be provided to upgrade to newer version. See all releases table for all release details, compatibility tools provided.

The api org.apache.lens.client.* and org.apache.lens.server.api.* are still evolving, once they are stable, they will be added to the above list.