What changed
Producer-side tools call this additive. It breaks exhaustive switches, strict parsers and generated client enums.
Affects this value on ExternalStorageStatus reachable from 4 operations.
New value: degraded.
can now return "degraded"
Who is affected
Code that reads OpenAI's ExternalStorageStatus objects, used by 4 OpenAI operations.
Before and after
| Where | Before | After |
|---|---|---|
| ExternalStorageStatus | "pending", "unhealthy", "validated" | "degraded", "pending", "unhealthy", "validated" |
Code that breaks
switch (response) {
// existing branches …
// no branch for "degraded"
default:
throw new Error("unexpected value");
}Based on OpenAI’s published API specification. How severity is decided.