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Breakingdirection flip: their tools call this safe

status can now return "validated"

What changed

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

Affects status on verification_session_redaction reachable from 6 operations.

New value: validated.

can now return "validated"

Who is affected

Code that reads Stripe's verification_session_redaction objects, used by 6 Stripe operations.

Before and after

WhereBeforeAfter
verification_session_redaction.status"processing", "redacted""processing", "redacted", "validated"

Code that breaks

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

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