[Pharo-users] Fuel 1.7 vs Fuel 1.8 questions

Is there a strong reason to switch to 1.8 vs 1.7 other than the fact that 1.8 is the new hotness? I remember that you made no guarantees but are Fuel 1.7 and Fuel 1.8 serialized formats compatible? If not is there a recommended process to switch from one format to the other? I'd assume starting from a clean pharo you could: 1. load Fuel 1.7 2. materialize all the interesting Fuel 1.7 objects 3. removing Fuel 1.7 4. load Fuel 1.8 5. serialize all the interesting objects in Fuel 1.8 I have not looked at the code but is there a way to do a streaming 'serialize to byte array' in conjunction with Zinc for populating a database? Thanks for your work on this.