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While the eLandings system provides backward compatibility to prior schema versions as a convenience to users and interfacing systems, support for prior versions is limited. Support for a particular schema version is limited to one year after it is superseded. While in many cases, older versions of the schema will still be usable, no support for issues with versions of the schema more than a year out of date should be expected. In particular, pre-existing bugs with older version of the schema will not necessarily be fixed if they are found and reported. Such bug fixes will almost always require upgrading to a currently supported version of the schema.

While in most cases prior versions of the schema will be supported for a year, regulation changes imposed by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council or other agencies may have shorter implementation timeframes. In such cases, the regulatory timeframe will take precedence and interfacing systems will need to upgrade to the current schema version. Such occurences occurrences are rare, but not unknown.