Subscribing to breaking API changes

[Bill Prin]

I am trying to understand if there's any way to learn more about breaking API change ahead of time, other than subscribing and reading every blog post.

We ran into this issue: 

https://groups.google.com/g/adwords-api/c/lc9FgyvtGlU?pli=1

and it caused major problems.

It's very frustrating that Google is making breaking API changes without a semantic versioning update. The documentation was also incorrect with only the blog post mentioning the key changes.

Given that's happening, it seems the only way to avoid major problems is to subscribe to the Google Ads API blog, read every post, and try to determine if the changes mentioned in the post apply to any of our usage.

There's also a lot of posts on the blog, most of which are not relevant, and it will take some time to read every post and understand each one and figure out if it's relevant.

Is this the only option though? Are there any simpler ways to find out if there will be major API breakages?

Bill

[Google Ads API Forum Advisor Prod]

Hi Bill,

Thank you for reaching out.

Our team understands the inconvenience you are encountering with this issue. However, there is currently no option to be alerted prior to any upcoming changes apart from regularly checking our developer blog.

All upcoming changes are relayed only via the said blog and if the post includes announcements on version changes, they are reflected around the same time in our release notes.

Best regards,

Peter Laurence Napa Oliquino Google Ads API Team

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