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OpenAI / OpenAI API /

Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

status can now return "paused", "pausing"

What changed

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

Affects status on FineTuningJob reachable from 6 operations.

New values: paused, pausing.

can now return "paused", "pausing"

Who is affected

Code that reads OpenAI's FineTuningJob objects, used by 6 OpenAI operations.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
FineTuningJob.status"cancelled", "failed", "queued", "running", "succeeded", "validating_files""cancelled", "failed", "paused", "pausing", "queued", "running", "succeeded", "validating_files"

Code that breaks

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

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