Using a placeholder for FontAwesome links in descriptions of settings

How do admins know which FontAwesome icons they can use? I mean, currently, it’s safe to assume using the most current version. But when V8 is published, there will be a time where you need to know that icons added in FA8 won’t work, and in cases where the name was changed, you also need to use the FA7 name of the icon. Or is that no longer a problem?

About a year ago, it was cvx who suggested that we keep a version number in the links: