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API Versioning Strategy

Evolve an API without breaking existing clients.

Updated June 2026
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Recommend an API versioning strategy for {{api}} that needs to evolve while supporting existing clients. Compare the approaches (URL path, header, or query versioning), recommend one with the reasoning, define what counts as a breaking versus non-breaking change, how to deprecate old versions gracefully with notice, how to communicate changes to consumers, and how to avoid maintaining too many versions. Note the discipline of additive, backward-compatible changes that avoid needing a new version, and the cost of getting versioning wrong.
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AI Khazna

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