base_role can now return "moderate"

What changed

Producer-side tools call this additive. It breaks exhaustive switches, strict parsers and generated client enums.

Affects base_role on organization-role reachable from 2 operations.

New value: moderate.

can now return "moderate"

Who is affected

Code that reads GitHub's organization-role objects, used by 2 GitHub operations.

Before and after

Code that breaks

switch (response.base_role) {
  // existing branches …
  // no branch for "moderate"
  default:
    throw new Error("unexpected base_role");
}

Based on GitHub’s published API specification. How severity is decided.