Does the function of patching only can be used in 4.16 and above

I was trying to use the patching function in 4.14,and i was followed by the document,and finally failed,and the i copied this to 4.15 and 4.16,it works fined in 4.16 but failed in 4.15,i wonder if this function can only work in 4.16 or above,could someone help?