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I also found it odd that they switched from URL versioning to an HTTP header.

Sure if I’m writing an integration that’s no big deal, but it makes it more of a PITA to do things from the CLI with curl.

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Well, you don’t need the header

You don’t need it if you’re expecting the current 2022-11-28 version, but it seems like you’ll need it to “opt-in” to any future ones, which presumably includes new endpoints that don’t even exist in the current.

Author here. We consider new endpoints to be non-breaking changes, so they’ll be available in 2022-11-28.

Ah, ok. Well personally that seems even worse. Adding new things to the existing “version” just seems crazy.

depends on how you define "version" here. seems that github took "version changes when backwards compatibility is broken" version which can mean that you can deploy 20 new features but if those are new then "version" does not change.

that would be my guess

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