Stripe versioning and support policy

Learn about Stripe's versioning and support policy.

Stripe API versions

Starting with the 2024-09-30.acacia release, Stripe follows a new API release process where we release new API versions monthly with no breaking changes. Twice a year, we issue a new release (for example, acacia) that starts with an API version that will have breaking changes.

You can expect new minor versions of the SDKs with each monthly API version and new major versions of the SDKs with each of the twice a year major releases.

You may sometimes see a major version update to the SDKs with the monthly API version updates if the SDKs have breaking changes to ship.

To understand what to expect from a new API version, see API upgrades.

Stripe SDK versions

Stripe’s SDK versioning policy is based on the semantic versioning standard. For example, in version 4.3.2, 4 is the major, 3 is the minor, and 2 is the patch. When we release a new SDK version for new features or bug fixes, we increment one of these three version components depending on the type of change introduced.

Major. We increment the major version component when the version contains breaking changes that are backwards incompatible with the latest version: to add a required parameter, change a type, property, method, or parameter. For example, renaming the SDK’s exception classes.
Minor. We increment the minor version component when the version contains new features that are backwards compatible with the latest version: to add a new type, property, method, optional parameter, or supported parameter value. For example, clarifying the SDK’s metadata deletion message.
Patch. We increment the patch version component when the version contains backward-compatible bug fixes: to modify a behavior if correcting that behavior doesn’t change any documented types, properties, methods, or parameters. For example, fixing a bug where file uploads weren’t listed properly.

You can test new features and enhancements in the preview stage by using versions of our SDKs that have the beta or b suffix. For example, 5.1.0b3 in Python and 5.1.0-beta.3 in other language SDKs.

For installation instructions or details about passing preview headers in the Stripe-Version header, check the README files in the respective SDK GitHub repositories.

Stripe SDK support policy

New features and bug fixes are released on the latest major version of the SDK. If you’re on an older major SDK version, we recommend upgrading to the latest major version to take advantage of these features and bug fixes. Older major versions of the package continue to be available for use, but won’t receive any additional updates.

Migration guides

We provide migration guides to help you upgrade from older major SDK versions. You can find them in the wiki section of our SDK GitHub repositories.