"breaking change" meaning in English

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        "A change in one part of a software system that potentially causes other components to fail; occurs most often in shared libraries of code used by multiple applications."
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        "(computing) A change in one part of a software system that potentially causes other components to fail; occurs most often in shared libraries of code used by multiple applications."
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        "(computing) A change in one part of a software system that potentially causes other components to fail; occurs most often in shared libraries of code used by multiple applications."
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