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by gtirloni 854 days ago
There is no replacement for reading changelogs or release notes.

Maybe if people did that for their dependencies, we wouldn't have certain software stacks with thousands of them for a simple helloworld-ish backend.

I'm of the opinion that SemVer or any other version arrangement is not to be trusted blindly. When I see a minor version upgrade, it gives me some hope I can upgrade without much trouble but I've been burned too many times to go in blind like that.