Review Impact and Manage Breaking Changes

Making changes to a runtime can have significant downstream effects. ActiveState provides you with tools to review the changes before you commit them and remediate any vulnerabilities and/or breaking changes.

Review Impact

When you perform remediations that require updating packages, sometimes those updates will introduce changes that have the potential to break your first party code. The Breaking Changes Report gives you a summary of those potential changes and allows you to make selections to balance the security risks with breaking your code.

To review the impact of your changes, you can do the following:

1. In the Configuration tab of your project, make changes as needed to your project.
2. After your Dependency Status resolves successfully, click the “Generate Impact Report” button at the top left.
3. Click the “View Impact Report” button
4. View the Impact Report at the top of the page to see what vulnerability changes your project will be made.
5. View your Dependency Comparison to review what exact languages, packages, and dependencies have changed.
6. Click on the “Vulnerabilities Added” tab to view information about new vulnerabilities in your project. This only appears if vulnerabilities are being added.
7. Click on “Breaking Changes” to review a summary of any breaking changes related to your updates.

Breaking Changes

While reviewing the impact of the changes made to your project, you can view a summary of any breaking changes your project may face.

1. After making changes and before saving, click on “Review Impact” as described above.
2. Click on “Breaking Changes” to review a summary of any breaking changes related to your updates. The breaking change report will provide a summary, a list of key changes, and a detailed list of any breaking changes you may face when using your new runtime.

Share Your Impact and Breaking Changes report

The reports described above provide important security and impact information that may be relevant to other stakeholders in your organization. Share your generated reports by doing the following:

1. Click on the “Share” button.
2. Click on the copy icon to save a shareable link to your clipboard or highlight the link and copy it.