State of the 2.x branch?

[jtpio]

There is a 2.x branch on the repo: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-collaboration/tree/2.x

There were a couple of alpha releases made from that branch, for example: https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-collaboration/releases/tag/v2.0.0alpha4

Now there is a new 2.0.0 release (no beta or rc): https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyter-collaboration/releases/tag/v2.0.0

Questions:

• are the changes in 2.x not needed anymore?
• should the 2.x branch be deleted?

cc @davidbrochart who made the 2.0.0 release and might have more information and / or context?

[jtpio]

More context and documentation in the changelog would be useful to users who were already using the 2.0.0ax releases, for example: #219

[davidbrochart]

I think the 2.x was based on y-crdt/ypy-websocket#86, which I didn't approve, so I don't see myself taking the 2.x branch further.
I'd be in favor of dropping 2.x, but happy to hear other opinions.

[jtpio]

Also for the 2.0.0 are there any breaking changes users should be aware of, which could break deployments?

Are there general improvements to the RTC experience with 2.0?

Or is it mostly a swap of an underlying library without users noticing?

[davidbrochart]

It is mostly a swap of the underlying CRDT library (ypy -> pycrdt). There were also some improvements, new tests and bug fixes by Carlos (see the changelog).
There are no breaking changes users should be aware of. Pycrdt has a different API than Ypy, but these changes are in jupyter-ydoc, which also got a major version bump.
I would say that only the fact that pycrdt is up-to-date with Yrs, while we were using a very old Yrs version in Ypy, could fix a number of bugs.