Thread:Talk:Download from Git/Keeping up to date/reply (3)

Suppose I upgrade MediaWiki to the latest stable release (in this case, v1.20.1). If I use  there's a possibility that this latest development version of the extension will use features (e.g. hooks) that are only available in the alpha version of MediaWiki (in this case, v1.21), and therefore it might not work, right? Or would it probably be backward-compatible? I was going to do that with all my extensions. Thanks,