diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d1e1df6dd..5d62a2f23 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -82,32 +82,12 @@ and familiarize yourself with our Tendermint uses [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/) to determine when and how the version changes. According to SemVer, anything in the public API can change at any time before version 1.0.0 -To provide some stability to Tendermint users in these 0.X.X days, the MINOR version is used -to signal breaking changes across a subset of the total public API. This subset includes all -interfaces exposed to other processes (cli, rpc, p2p, etc.), but does not -include the Go APIs. - -That said, breaking changes in the following packages will be documented in the -CHANGELOG even if they don't lead to MINOR version bumps: - -- crypto -- config -- libs - - bits - - bytes - - json - - log - - math - - net - - os - - protoio - - rand - - sync - - strings - - service -- node -- rpc/client -- types +To provide some stability to users of 0.X.X versions of Tendermint, the MINOR version is used +to signal breaking changes across Tendermint's API. This API includes all +publicly exposed types, functions, and methods in non-internal Go packages as well as +the types and methods accessible via the Tendermint RPC interface. + +Breaking changes to these public APIs will be documented in the CHANGELOG. ### Upgrades