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Fixing a Bug Can Be a Breaking Change

Fixing a bug can break the software that depends on it, because consumers often build around the buggy behaviour rather than the documented API. The article explains why such corrections count as breaking changes and how maintainers can weigh that risk before shipping a fix.

juststeveking.com29 Oct 2026 · 1 min read · summary
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Your consumers built against your behaviour, not your documentation. Correcting a bug they worked around is an outage you shipped on purpose.

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