breaking change

English

Noun

breaking change (plural breaking changes)

(computing) A change in one part of a software system that potentially causes other components to fail; occurs most often in shared libraries of code used by multiple applications
Not possible to fix old entries without a breaking change, so remap old to new in import lib.

See also

backward compatibility

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