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Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

status_page_type can now return "audience_specific"

What changed

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

Affects status_page_type on StatusPage reachable from 1 operation.

New value: audience_specific.

can now return "audience_specific"

Who is affected

Code that reads PagerDuty's StatusPage objects, used by 1 PagerDuty operation.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
StatusPage.status_page_type"private", "public""audience_specific", "private", "public"

Code that breaks

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

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