Track Facebook Graph API version expirations to avoid silent behavior changes on old integrations

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Steps

  1. Confirm the official policy at developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/guides/versioning: each Graph API version is guaranteed to operate for at least two years, expiring two years after the next version's release
  2. Check your integration's pinned API version against its specific changelog page (developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/changelog/version{N}) for its exact expiration date rather than assuming the two-year rule applies uniformly
  3. Use v9.0 as a concrete reference point: released November 10, 2020, available until February 23, 2023
  4. If you use the Marketing API specifically, track its expiration separately from the core Graph API, since the two have independent clocks even for the same version number (e.g., v9.0 Marketing API expired August 25, 2021, over a year before v9.0 Graph API)
  5. Don't rely on graceful failure after expiration for the Marketing API — unlike core Graph API (which silently falls back to the oldest still-usable version), Marketing API throws errors on expired versions

Known gotchas

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