D-046: Add comprehensive API versioning and deprecation strategy

[Nanle-code]

Overview

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Implementation Details

Step 1: Versioning

• API version strategy
• Version headers
• Version routing

Step 2: Compatibility

• Backward compatibility
• Deprecation warnings
• Migration guides

Step 3: Documentation

• Version-specific docs
• Changelog
• Migration tools

Step 4: Analytics

• Version usage
• Deprecation tracking
• Adoption metrics

Step 5: Sunset

• Sunset policies
• Decommissioning
• Communication

[Anieblin]

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Hello Maintainer, I'd love to work on this issue

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