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Versioning and API Stability
API stability is one of Scrapy major goals. We're currently working on documenting and stabilizing the main parts of Scrapy towards the first official release (version |version|).
Versioning
Each Scrapy release consists of three version numbers:
- major - big, backwards-incompatible changes
- minor - new features and backwards-compatible changes
- micro - bug fixes only
Sometimes the micro version can be omitted, for brevity, when it's not relevant.
API Stability
Methods or functions that start with a single dash (_) are private and should never be relied as stable. Besides those, the plan is to stabilize and document the entire API, as we approach the 1.0 release. In the meantime, you'll find here a list of the APIs that we consider already stable.
Also, keep in mind that stable doesn't mean complete: stable APIs could grow new methods or functionality but the existing methods should keep working the same way.
Docutils System Messages
System Message: ERROR/3 (<stdin>, line 7); backlink
Undefined substitution referenced: "version".