I thought 2.7 has always been the bugfix branch and no new features would be ported to the 2.x branch after 2.7 was released? Some things were backported from 3

I thought 2.7 has always been the bugfix branch and no new features would be ported to the 2.x branch after 2.7 was released? Some things were backported from 3.x to 2.x but that was done with 2.6 and 2.7.