How Do You Decide When to Bump an API Version?
I'm trying to understand the valid approaches to API versioning and how to distinguish between major, minor, and patch-level changes. In particular, when should a change be treated…
breaking changes
How do you distinguish valid API versioning changes?
I'm trying to understand how API versioning conventions work and how to classify different kinds of changes. Is a major version for breaking changes, a minor version for…
Should dropping Python 3.8 and 3.9 support require a major release?
I maintain a Python CLI and development tool for Polylith-style architectures, mainly used with microservices in monorepos. A small number of users still run Python 3.8, and some…
Is dropping Python 3.8 and 3.9 support a breaking change?
I maintain a Python CLI for the Polylith Architecture, mainly used with microservices in monorepos and installed as a development or CI dependency. A small number of users…
What should I check before upgrading to Kubernetes 1.37?
Kubernetes 1.37 includes several changes that may cause components to fail at startup or make existing monitoring and workloads behave differently. The biggest upgrade risks include removed or…
How can I recruit testers for a breaking plugin update?
I maintain a small, older WordPress plugin with around 10,000 active installations. It currently stores a value in a single post_meta field, and I've been working on a…
How can I recruit testers for a potentially breaking plugin update?
I maintain a small, older plugin with around 10,000 active installations. It currently stores a value in a post_meta field, and I've finished a major rewrite for version…
How do you handle breaking changes in minor dependency updates?
A recent dependency upgrade caused an unexpected production issue: a framework began rejecting JSON requests that lacked a valid Content-Type header. Our end-to-end tests passed because modern HTTP…
How are you handling ESLint 10 breaking changes in older projects?
ESLint 10 is breaking some of my older projects. For now, I've avoided updates between 10.0.0 and 10.1.0, but manually pinning around specific releases feels awkward and hard…