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By making the Swift 3 branch iOS9+-only this will make it not easy for developers to switch over, especially since Apple is using a very aggressive iOS release cycle:\r\n\r\niOS 8: Sep 17, 2014\r\niOS 9: Sep 16, 2015\r\niOS 10: Sep 2016(?)\r\n\r\nIs there a big reason to drop iOS 8 support now? I understand the need to keep the code clean and up-to-date, but I don't think iOS 8 compatibility is something that will disappear overnight for most developers (I am aware that all iOS 8 devices can be updated to iOS 9, but that's not something everyone does).\r\n\r\nIt would be very nice to have at least an initial release using Swift 3 that's compatible with iOS 8 and then moving away from iOS 8 for next releases (or make the Swift 3 branch require iOS 8.4 if it's mostly related to bugs in 8.1 and 8.2).\r\n\r\nFWIW: the current head in the swift3 branch still compiles for iOS 8.\r\n\r\n\r\n"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Alamofire/Alamofire/issues/comments/245439357","html_url":"https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire/issues/1367#issuecomment-245439357","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/Alamofire/Alamofire/issues/1367","id":245439357,"user":{"login":"jshier","id":51020,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/51020?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jshier","html_url":"https://github.com/jshier","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jshier/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jshier/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jshier/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jshier/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jshier/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jshier/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jshier/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jshier/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jshier/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2016-09-07T22:27:36Z","updated_at":"2016-09-07T22:27:36Z","body":"iOS 10 will be released one week from today. Additionally, anyone running iOS 8 can upgrade to iOS 9 for free, which they should be doing anyway, due to the rather severe security issues patched in 9.3.5. Finally, you can continue using Alamofire with the upcoming 3.5.0 release which will support iOS 8 - 10 by use of Swift 2.3."}}
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