Lexicon

Silent Breaking Changes

Kind: anti-pattern

Layer: Contracts Core

Record: lexicon:silent-breaking-changes

Canonical: Lexicon

Shipping a breaking change with no version bump or notice, so consumers fail without warning.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Proprietary Drift and before Strict Fragile Parsers.

Category

  • Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility

Violates

  • Service Contract
  • Consumer-Driven Contracts

Negated by

  • Versioning

Linked from

  • Contracts / Interfaces / Compatibility