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I saw a chart similar to this in ruby/openssl's README, and it seems
like this is a relatively simple way to communicate our versioning.  I
would like to add a (slightly) more detailed deprecation/compatibility
policy in a future PR.
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## Compatibility and Maintenance Policy

`net-imap` is bundled with Ruby releases. As a [bundled gem], it can be
uninstalled from a Ruby installation and must be declared in `Gemfile` when used
with `bundler`. Each stable branch of `net-imap` will remain supported as long
as it is included as a bundled gem in [supported Ruby branches].

| |Bundled with|Compatible with|First bundled release |Supported? |
|-----|------------|---------------|-----------------------------|-------------|
|0.5.x| _Ruby 3.4_ | Ruby 3.1+ |0.5.?, Ruby 3.4.0, 2024-12-25|features |
|0.4.x| Ruby 3.3 | Ruby 2.7+ |0.4.9, Ruby 3.3.0, 2023-12-25|backports |
|0.3.x| Ruby 3.2 | Ruby 2.6+ |0.3.4, Ruby 3.2.0, 2022-12-25|bugfixes only|
|0.2.x| Ruby 3.1 | Ruby 2.5+/2.6+|0.2.2, Ruby 3.1.0, 2021-12-25|security only|
|0.1.x| Ruby 3.0* | Ruby 2.5+ |0.1.1, Ruby 3.0.0, 2020-12-25|end of life |
|_pre_| in stdlib | | Ruby 1.6.2, 2000-12-25|end of life |

Version 0.1.x was packaged as a [default gem] for Ruby 3.0, and can not be
uninstalled from a Ruby 3.0 installation. Before being extracted into a gem,
`net/imap` was only packaged as a part of Ruby's releases. The first stable
release to include `net/imap` was ruby 1.6.2, on 2000-12-25.

[bundled gem]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/standard_library_rdoc.html#label-Bundled+gems
[default gem]: https://docs.ruby-lang.org/en/master/standard_library_rdoc.html
[supported Ruby branches]: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/branches/

## Development

After checking out the repo, run `bin/setup` to install dependencies. Then, run `bundle exec rake test` to run the tests. You can also run `bin/console` for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.
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