Top "Backport" questions

Backporting is the action of either taking a new version of a piece of software and making it available in an older distribution, or taking a certain software modification (patch) and applying it to an older version of the software than it was initially created for.

How do I return to an older version of our code in Subversion?

I'm working on a project with a friend and I want to return to an older version of our code …

svn backport
python 2.7 functools_lru_cache does not import although installed

When I try to import matplotlib I get an error Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, …

python matplotlib backport
Has anybody yet backported Lambda Expressions to Java 7?

Reading about what kind of bytecode Java 8 produces from lambdas, it came to my mind the time when Java 5 was …

java lambda java-7 java-8 backport