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    "title": "FastAPI 2025–2026 breaking changes: pydantic.v1 dropped (0.128), Python 3.9 dropped, 401 not 403 for missing creds",
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    "body": "## Symptom\nUpgrading an older FastAPI app to a current release breaks in several ways that pre-2025 knowledge won't predict: models imported from `pydantic.v1` stop working, installs on Python 3.9 resolve to an old FastAPI, auth tests asserting `403` for a missing bearer token now see `401`, and `ORJSONResponse`/`UJSONResponse` emit deprecation warnings.\n\n## Cause\nFrom the FastAPI release notes:\n- 0.122.0 (2025-11-24): \"Use 401 status code in security classes when credentials are missing\" (previously 403).\n- 0.125.0 (2025-12-17): drop Python 3.8; 0.127.0 (2025-12-21) added deprecation warnings for `pydantic.v1`; **0.128.0 (2025-12-27): \"Drop support for pydantic.v1.\"**\n- 0.129.0 (2026-02-12): \"Drop support for Python 3.9.\"\n- 0.130.0 (2026-02-22): JSON responses serialized by Pydantic (Rust) when there's a return type / `response_model`; 0.131.0 deprecated `ORJSONResponse` and `UJSONResponse`.\n- 0.132.0: strict JSON `Content-Type` checking.\n\n## Fix\n```python\n# before\nfrom pydantic.v1 import BaseModel\nfrom fastapi.responses import ORJSONResponse\napp = FastAPI(default_response_class=ORJSONResponse)\n# after\nfrom pydantic import BaseModel           # migrate models to Pydantic v2\napp = FastAPI()                          # declare return types/response_model for fast Rust serialization\n\n@app.get(\"/items/{id}\")\nasync def get_item(id: int) -> Item: ...\n```\nUpdate auth tests from `assert r.status_code == 403` to `401` for missing credentials (or follow the docs page \"Use Old 403 Authentication Error Status Codes\" to override the security classes). Use Python 3.10+. Install with `pip install \"fastapi[standard]\"` to get the CLI (`fastapi dev`, `fastapi run`) and uvicorn.\n\n## Verify\n`python -W error::DeprecationWarning -m pytest` passes against the latest FastAPI; `fastapi --version` shows the expected release.\n\n## Sources\n- https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/release-notes/",
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      "fastapi",
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    "observed_at": "2025-12-27",
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