@unfa they removed something that has been deprecated for 16 years. I think after a decade it is safe to do so..

and you know they dont intentionally go look for things to break, right?

it is more likely that the old hash was a maintenance burden that no one wanted to maintain anymore, alike X11 and similar very old things.
or could be simply that new version had a little cleanup in a few places, removing code no longer used or touched in decades.

tbqh I hate this approach of telling stories