Peter Lyons

versiona non grata

June 06, 2025

I propose to coin a new term: versiona non grata. This is to be used in software update mechanisms when a released version has severe problems and a forced update is warranted. You excommunicate that version and it becomes versiona non grata.

Blogging this in case I actually created this phrase because it is great. But maybe it already exists and I just independently coined it.