compatibility

Oh my Word! Microsoft retires compatibility options, because who needs layouts to stay put

Published 2026-11-14 compatibility document documents

Admins with archives of ancient files brace for the wave of tickets from confused users

Published 2025-09-25 emulating figura compatibility

Elizabeth Figura , a Wine Developer at CodeWeavers, speaks with SE Radio host Jeremy Jung about the Wine compatibility layer and the Proton distribution. They d…

Legacy Support

Published 2016-09-23 compatibility legacy episode

When to require new iOS versions, and the real-world need for test devices.

Compatibility Contrast

Published 2020-01-23 compatibility discovers radar

As Marco discovers the value of staying with the old, David plows headfirst into the new.

Backporting

Published 2020-05-28 backporting compatibility abstractions

Using compatibility shims and abstractions to gain some of the newest APIs' benefits on previous OS versions.

Hard Forks

Published 2022-07-07 forks codebases compatibility

Rewriting major parts of your app with aggressive new targets while keeping the old code around for compatibility.

Requiring iOS 26?

Published 2025-07-04 considerations requiring compatibility

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Swift’s new concurrency system gains backward compatibility in Xcode 13.2

Published 2021-10-28 compatibility xcode backward

Starting in Xcode 13.2, Swift’s new suite of concurrency features are now backward compatible all the way back to iOS 13, macOS Catalina, watchOS 6, and tvOS 13…

Samsung and Google’s new smart glasses support iPhones but leave most Android brands out

Published 2026-11-13 compatibility glasses eyewear

iPhones make the cut, but most Android brands don't.