1.4.2 patch release breaks backward compatibility

[jonatan-ivanov]

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Not sure what versioning strategy does the project follows (seemingly semver?) but it seems a recent patch release upgraded minor versions (see 1.4.2).

This means that if someone wants to upgrade from 1.4.1 to 1.4.2 which is a patch upgrade they also need to introduce minor version upgrades of other dependencies otherwise they will get errors like:

Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'boolean io.grpc.LoadBalancer.acceptResolvedAddresses(io.grpc.LoadBalancer$ResolvedAddresses)'
	at io.grpc.internal.AutoConfiguredLoadBalancerFactory$AutoConfiguredLoadBalancer.tryAcceptResolvedAddresses(AutoConfiguredLoadBalancerFactory.java:142)
	at io.grpc.internal.ManagedChannelImpl$NameResolverListener$1NamesResolved.run(ManagedChannelImpl.java:1854)
	at io.grpc.SynchronizationContext.drain(SynchronizationContext.java:94)
	at io.grpc.SynchronizationContext.execute(SynchronizationContext.java:126)
	at io.grpc.internal.ManagedChannelImpl$RealChannel.newCall(ManagedChannelImpl.java:962)

In this particular case it seems in io.grpc.LoadBalancer this

public boolean acceptResolvedAddresses(ResolvedAddresses resolvedAddresses)

was changed to

public Status acceptResolvedAddresses(ResolvedAddresses resolvedAddresses)

This might not be a direct issue of grpc-kotlin since a breaking change like this should not be introduced in grpc-api in a minor release (though LoadBalancer has @ExperimentalApi 🤷🏼) but since it does minor version upgrades in a patch release, it introduces this issue for the users. Though, I don't know the versioning strategy of the grpc-java either and I did not dig deeper in the dependency tree.

Is it possible to issue a new release of 1.4 (1.4.4) that only contains patch version upgrades compared to 1.4.1 (or knowingly compatible minor version upgrades) and release 1.5.0 with the incompatible minor version upgrades?