roave/backward-compatibility-check
Tool to compare two revisions of a public API to check for BC breaks
8.21.0
4.2M downloads/mo
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Roave/BackwardCompatibilityCheck
What this package is like to depend on
Last release 3 months ago
15 May 2026
Ships fairly regularly
a new release about every 2 months
Rarely documented
notes for 10 of 51 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
8 years old
51 releases · first in 2018
7 releases in the last 12 months
see the full history below
Release timeline
50 releases · May 2018 to May 2026Releases
latest 51-
8.21.015 May 2026Release notes
Open source →Release Notes for 8.21.0
Feature release (minor)
8.21.0
- Total issues resolved: 0
- Total pull requests resolved: 1
- Total contributors: 1
dependencies,enhancement,help wanted,renovate
- 985: Update dependency phpunit/phpunit to v13 thanks to @renovate[bot]
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8.20.020 Mar 2026Release notes
Open source →Release Notes for 8.20.0
Feature release (minor)
8.20.0
- Total issues resolved: 0
- Total pull requests resolved: 1
- Total contributors: 1
dependencies,enhancement
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8.19.013 Feb 2026Release notes
Open source →Release Notes for 8.19.0
Feature release (minor)
8.19.0
- Total issues resolved: 0
- Total pull requests resolved: 1
- Total contributors: 1
bug
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8.18.009 Feb 2026Release notes
Open source →Release Notes for 8.18.0
Feature release (minor)
8.18.0
- Total issues resolved: 0
- Total pull requests resolved: 5
- Total contributors: 5
bug
- 986: bug:
protectedmethod in final class ->privateis not a BC break thanks to @acoulton - 984: Fix schema location case sensitivity in README.md example thanks to @alexander-schranz
enhancement
- 981: README.md: Fix double "of" in ignored-regex thanks to @reedy
- 979: Added Roave contact link thanks to @asgrim
dependencies,enhancement,renovate
- 977: Update actions/cache action to v5 thanks to @renovate[bot]
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8.17.029 Nov 2025Release notes
Open source →Release Notes for 8.17.0
Feature release (minor)
8.17.0
- Total issues resolved: 0
- Total pull requests resolved: 1
- Total contributors: 1
dependencies,enhancement,renovate
- 976: Update all non-major dependencies thanks to @renovate[bot]
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8.16.026 Nov 2025Release notes
Open source →Release Notes for 8.16.0
Feature release (minor)
8.16.0
- Total issues resolved: 0
- Total pull requests resolved: 4
- Total contributors: 2
dependencies,enhancement
- 974: PHP 8.5 support thanks to @Ocramius
- 940: Upgrade allowed dependency ranges for PHP 8.5 support thanks to @Ocramius
dependencies,renovate
- 969: Update all non-major dependencies thanks to @renovate[bot]
- 968: Update actions/checkout action to v6 thanks to @renovate[bot]
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8.15.020 Oct 2025Release notes
Open source →Release Notes for 8.15.0
Feature release (minor)
8.15.0
- Total issues resolved: 0
- Total pull requests resolved: 8
- Total contributors: 2
enhancement
- 939: README: fix 404 url thanks to @staabm
dependencies,duplicate,renovate
renovate
- 937: Update dependency squizlabs/php_codesniffer to v4 thanks to @renovate[bot]
- 933: Update actions/checkout action to v5 thanks to @renovate[bot]
- 930: Lock file maintenance thanks to @renovate[bot]
- 929: Update all non-major dependencies thanks to @renovate[bot]
dependencies,renovate
- 936: Drop PHP 8.2 support, upgrade
azjezz/pslto^4.0.1thanks to @renovate[bot] - 917: Update dependency phpunit/phpunit to v12 thanks to @renovate[bot]
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8.14.009 Jun 2025Release notes
Open source →Release Notes for 8.14.0
Feature release (minor)
8.14.0
- Total issues resolved: 0
- Total pull requests resolved: 1
- Total contributors: 1
enhancement
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8.13.006 Feb 2025Release notes
Open source →Release Notes for 8.13.0
Feature release (minor)
8.13.0
- Total issues resolved: 0
- Total pull requests resolved: 1
- Total contributors: 1
enhancement
- 770: Removed PHAR builds support thanks to @Ocramius
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8.12.006 Feb 2025Release notes
Open source →Release Notes for 8.12.0
Feature release (minor)
8.12.0
- Total issues resolved: 0
- Total pull requests resolved: 3
- Total contributors: 2
dependencies,enhancement
- 913: Upgrade to support PHP 8.4 runtime and basic code parsing (not the hooks hell of PHP 8.4) thanks to @Ocramius
renovate
- 769: Update shivammathur/setup-php action to v2.32.0 thanks to @renovate[bot]
dependencies,duplicate,enhancement,renovate
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8.11.005 Feb 2025Nothing published for this version
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8.10.008 Oct 2024Nothing published for this version
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8.9.005 Sep 2024Nothing published for this version
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8.8.022 May 2024Nothing published for this version
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8.7.011 Apr 2024Nothing published for this version
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8.6.020 Dec 2023Nothing published for this version
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8.5.020 Dec 2023Nothing published for this version
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8.4.025 Nov 2023Nothing published for this version
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8.3.011 Feb 2023Nothing published for this version
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8.2.121 Dec 2022Nothing published for this version
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8.2.015 Dec 2022Nothing published for this version
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8.1.023 Nov 2022Nothing published for this version
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8.0.013 Nov 2022Nothing published for this version
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7.4.031 Oct 2022Nothing published for this version
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7.3.012 Oct 2022Nothing published for this version
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7.2.010 Oct 2022Nothing published for this version
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7.1.029 Aug 2022Nothing published for this version
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7.0.031 Mar 2022Nothing published for this version
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6.4.031 Mar 2022Nothing published for this version
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6.3.023 Mar 2022Nothing published for this version
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6.2.008 Mar 2022Nothing published for this version
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6.1.104 Feb 2022Nothing published for this version
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6.1.015 Jan 2022Nothing published for this version
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6.0.103 Jan 2022Nothing published for this version
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6.0.026 Dec 2021Nothing published for this version
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5.0.022 Jun 2020Nothing published for this version
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4.4.008 Feb 2020Nothing published for this version
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4.3.008 Feb 2020Nothing published for this version
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4.2.101 Nov 2019Nothing published for this version
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4.2.0no dateNothing published for this version
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4.1.018 Sep 2019Nothing published for this version
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4.0.017 Jul 2019Nothing published for this version
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3.0.023 Apr 2019Nothing published for this version
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2.1.011 Feb 2019Nothing published for this version
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2.0.023 Aug 2018Nothing published for this version
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1.1.121 Aug 2018Nothing published for this version
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1.1.021 Aug 2018Nothing published for this version
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1.0.304 Jun 2018Nothing published for this version
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1.0.227 May 2018Nothing published for this version
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1.0.127 May 2018Nothing published for this version
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1.0.026 May 2018Nothing published for this version