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Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

inferredDates can now return "AnySprintDates"

What changed

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

Affects scheduling.inferredDates on GetPlanResponse reachable from 1 operation.

New value: AnySprintDates.

can now return "AnySprintDates"

Who is affected

Code that reads Jira Cloud's GetPlanResponse objects, used by 1 Jira Cloud operation.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
GetPlanResponse.scheduling.inferredDates"None", "ReleaseDates", "SprintDates""AnySprintDates", "None", "ReleaseDates", "SprintDates"
GetSchedulingResponse.inferredDates"None", "ReleaseDates", "SprintDates""AnySprintDates", "None", "ReleaseDates", "SprintDates"

Code that breaks

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

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