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API Changelog & Versioning

Table of Contents

• Overview
• When to Use
• Quick Start
• Reference Guides
• Best Practices

Overview

Create comprehensive API changelogs that document changes, deprecations, breaking changes, and provide migration guides for API consumers.

When to Use

• API version changelogs
• Breaking changes documentation
• Migration guides between versions
• Deprecation notices
• API upgrade guides
• Backward compatibility notes
• Version comparison

Quick Start

• Version comparison

  API Changelog

  Version 3.0.0 - 2025-01-15

  🚨 Breaking Changes

  Authentication Method Changed

  Previous (v2):

  GET /api/users
  Authorization: Token abc123
  

  Reference Guides

  Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

  Guide	Contents
  🚨 Breaking Changes	🚨 Breaking Changes
  ✨ New Features	✨ New Features
  🔧 Improvements	🔧 Improvements
  🔒 Security	🔒 Security, 🗑️ Deprecated, 📊 Version Support Policy
  Step 1: Update Base URL	Step 1: Update Base URL, Step 2: Migrate Authentication, Step 3: Update Response Parsing, Step 4: Update Error Handling (+2 more)

  Best Practices

  ✅ DO

  • Clearly mark breaking changes
  • Provide migration guides with code examples
  • Include before/after comparisons
  • Document deprecation timelines
  • Show impact on existing implementations
  • Provide SDKs for major versions
  • Use semantic versioning
  • Give advance notice (3-6 months)
  • Maintain backward compatibility when possible
  • Document version support policy

  ❌ DON'T

  • Make breaking changes without notice
  • Remove endpoints without deprecation period
  • Skip migration examples
  • Forget to version your API
  • Change behavior without documentation
  • Rush deprecations

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