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Hahaha that's amazing, just a big red "RETIRED" badge above their blog post? What the hell

Breaking changes have had that tag for ages

Really? Retired? What does that even mean in this context, why not "breaking" or something else that suggests breaking change?

> Retired? What does that even mean in this context

"retired" is probably a followup to functionality that was "deprecated".

I agree "breaking" would be clearer

What exactly is it that's now retired that used to be deprecated? Isn't this just a collection of breaking changes to defaults?

if you go to the full changelog on the blog and click on the "retired" button, the url will have type=deprecations as the parameter.

It's a holdover from previous posts where there were more clearly defined deprecations.

but yes, in this case it's more of a behavioural change of defaults, so they just picked the closest vaguely mapped retired/deprecations tag.