How to get satisfaction from ungrateful work: A journey into updating Kotlin
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Six practical steps focus on minimizing invisible failures when bumping libraries: run a full no-cache build and screenshot results, 1.4.32 → 1.5.32 shows real fallout, read release notes and pin related Gradle patches (examples: 6.9.2 and 7.3.3), run veridex to spot non‑SDK use, inspect transitive stdlib version mismatches, centralize TODOs and dependency fixes, and run all unit and UI tests. Concrete surprises include Turkish uppercase edge cases breaking JSON keys and an IR compiler backend change that turns some exceptions into NPEs.
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