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8.x
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Description:
Views plugins in Drupal 6 and 7 needed to declare what version of the Views API they required in order to allow for smaller changes in the Views API. However, with Views in core as of Drupal 8 the Views API version is synonymous with the Drupal core version, and thus the extra declaration is redundant. Therefore, Views plugins no longer need to declare a Views API version.
Modules that provide Views plugins, of course, must still declare themselves dependent on Drupal 8 core, and may declare a dependency on other modules or specific PHP versions if appropriate.
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