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Serpapi definitely did the right thing here. Shame on the maintainers for introducing such a breaking change in a minor version update. I guess the takeaways are: - review change logs for any gems that are updated - have extensive test cases for anything that charges customers

Hindsight is always 20/20 of course.

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The should have read over changelogs. What production system just accepts changes blindly without internalizing them?

most of them in the real world.

And I mean like 98% or more. I have worked in IT for over 20 years, and you actually have to fight clients managers to get time to do it.

I work in healthcare. I wish I had problem like that, instead, I just today had to fix something that was running on unpatched ubuntu 14. I know that there are servers running unpatched log4j where people are in "talks" who will pay for "upgrade" etc.

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