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Expand Up @@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ to open an [issue](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues) or
[pull request](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pulls) to start a discussion for turning it
into a public API. However, we do not discourage the attempt to create packages that expose
stable public interfaces while relying on non-public implementation details of Julia and
buffering the differences across different Julia versions.
buffering the differences across different Julia versions. Such packages should use tilde
(`julia = "~1.10"`) or equals (`julia = "=1.10.5"`) specifiers in their Julia `[compat]` entries,
instead of the default (caret) specifier.

### The documentation is not accurate enough. Can I rely on the existing behavior?

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