Not exactly. It means that enough infrastructure was moved into PostgreSQL 9.6, ...

		pgaddict on Sept 25, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bidirectional Replication is coming to PostgreSQL ... Not exactly. It means that enough infrastructure was moved into PostgreSQL 9.6, making it possible to run BDR on unmodified PostgreSQL. Before 9.6 it was necessary to use patched PostgreSQL packages.