Is the FreeBSD ABI compatibility policy documented anywhere

[Bruce Cran]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:00:04 -0700
Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:

> Stef Walter wrote:
> > It seems that FreeBSD has an ABI compatibility policy where major
> > versions remain ABI and API compatible throughout minor point
> > versions. That is to say that the kernel interfaces and libraries
> > for (eg) 7-STABLE, 7.1-RELEASE, 7.2-RELEASE are not supposed to
> > change.
> > 
> > Is this a policy of the project? If so, is it documented anywhere?
> > Or is it just a convention?
> 
> It is a policy of the project but I don't think our policies are 
> written down as such. I think you will find it referenced in
> many places in a sideways manner rather than directly.
> 
> Possibly in the developer handbook

The only place I found it directly referenced was in
http://wiki.freebsd.org/VendorInformation

-- 
Bruce Cran