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GitHub breaking changes
The 3 releases whose own notes call out a breaking change, out of 186 the archive holds. Scattered one per release page, this is a run nobody can see; gathered, it is the shape of how often GitHub asks you to change your code.
- Tagged breaking
- 3 of 186 releases
- Roughly
- 1 in 62 releases held here
- Most recent
- 23 Oct 2026 today
- Across
- 2 months back to 20 Aug 2026
How this is decided
A release appears here because the word breaking is in the notes its publisher wrote, not because anyone here read the diff. That cuts both ways. A release that changed an API without using the word is missing from this page, and a release that used the word about something minor is on it. It is the publisher’s own signal, reported rather than judged, which is the same rule the security page follows.
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