On Fri, 6 Feb 2026 at 20:37, Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, 6 Feb 2026 at 20:21, Thilo Molitor <thilo@eightysoft.de> wrote:
>
> Does this even need a namespace bump if it only adds a new element, but does
> not alter existing ones?

Technically, yes.

As one of the progenitors of namespace versioning, technically yes is the worst kind of yes. :-)

I think you could add this in without a bump, and all preexisting ones will still work. You'd then need to signal support for the new one in a feature (disco or stream; in this case I assume disco).

Dave.