That is a feature, the patches introduce changes in the object model, the database and the public API. It seems to be complicated to address that request.
(In reply to Sahid Ferdjaoui from comment #3)
> That is a feature, the patches introduce changes in the object model, the
> database and the public API. It seems to be complicated to address that
> request.
Right, unfortunately such changes introduce issues particularly for updates which mean we can't include them as backports in a minor update (z-stream).